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Extremal positive semidefinite forms

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, M 5 S 1 A1, Toronto, Canada

    Man-Duen Choi

  2. Department of Mathematics, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Tsit-Yuen Lam

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Choi, MD., Lam, TY. Extremal positive semidefinite forms. Math. Ann. 231, 1–18 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01360024

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