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Hosono, S.; Klemm, A.; Theisen, S. An Extended Lecture on Mirror Symmetry. Les rencontres physiciens-mathématiciens de Strasbourg -RCP25, Conférences de M. Audin, D. Bernard, A. Bilal, B. Enriquez, E. Frenkel, F. Golse, M. Katz, R. Lawrence, O. Mathieu, P. Von Moerbeke, V. Ovsienko, N. Reshetikhin, S. Theisen, Tome 47 (1995), Exposé no. 2, 44 p. http://archive.numdam.org/item/RCP25_1995__47__33_0/

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