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Research of Beck supported in part by NSF grant DMS-0810105. Research of Haase supported in part by NSF grant DMS-0200740 and a DFG Emmy Noether fellowship. Research of Sottile supported in part by the Clay Mathematical Institute and NSF CAREER grant DMS-0538734.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, 94132, USA

    Matthias Beck

  2. Fachbereich Mathematik & Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195, Berlin, Germany

    Christian Haase

  3. Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA

    Frank Sottile

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Beck, M., Haase, C. & Sottile, F. (Formulas of Brion, Lawrence, and Varchenko on rational generating functions for cones). Math Intelligencer 31, 9–17 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-008-9013-y

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