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Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu
Erhard Seiler (Eds.)
Approaches
to Fundamental Physics
An Assessment of Current Theoretical Ideas
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Editors
Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu Erhard Seiler
Forschungsstätte der Evangelischen Max-Planck-Institut für Physik
Studiengemeinschaft (FESt) Werner-Heisenberg-Institut
Schmeilweg 5 80805 München, Germany
69118 Heidelberg, Germany ******@
and
Institut für Theoretische Physik
Universität Heidelberg
Philosophenweg 16
69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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I.-O. Stamatescu and E. Seiler (Eds.), Approaches to Fundamental Physics, Lect. Notes
Phys. 721 (Springer, Berlin Heidelberg 2007), DOI -3-540-71117-9
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ISSN 0075-8450
ISBN 978-3-540-71115-5 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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