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Arkady Migdal

DEC 01, 1991

DOI: 10.1063/1.2810373

Vladimir Gribov

Anatoly Larkin

Lev Okun

Alexander Polyakov

Eduard Saperstein

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Vladimir Gribov, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow.

Anatoly Larkin, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow.

Lev Okun, Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow.

Alexander Polyakov, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.

Eduard Saperstein, Institute for Atomic Energy, Moscow.

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