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  1. Mathematical Institute, Oxford University, OX1 3LB, Oxford, England

    Michael G. Eastwood & Roger Penrose

  2. Department of Mathematics, Rice University, 77001, Houston, TX, USA

    R. O. Wells Jr.

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Research supported by the National Science Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the Vaughn Foundation

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Eastwood, M.G., Penrose, R. & Wells, R.O. Cohomology and massless fields. Commun.Math. Phys. 78, 305–351 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01942327

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