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  1. Department of Mathematics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 19122, USA

    Cristian E. Gutiérrez

  2. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, 45435, USA

    Qingbo Huang

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Communicated by L.C. Evans

Cristian E. Gutiérrez was partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-0610374.

Qingbo Huang was partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-0502045.

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Gutiérrez, C.E., Huang, Q. The Refractor Problem in Reshaping Light Beams. Arch Rational Mech Anal 193, 423–443 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00205-008-0165-x

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