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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin, 78712-1082, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

    Edward Odell

  2. Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, 77843, College Station, TX, U.S.A.

    Thomas Schlumprecht

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Partially supported by NSF Grants DMS-8903197, DMS-9208482 and TARP 235.

Partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-9203753 and LEQSF.

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Odell, E., Schlumprecht, T. The distortion problem. Acta Math. 173, 259–281 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02398436

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