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On complete classes of valuated matroids. / Husic, Edin; Loho, Georg; Smith, Ben et al.
Proceedings of the 2022 Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA). ed. / Nikhil Bansal; Christian Coester; Ravi Kumar; Manish Purohit; Erik Vee. SIAM PUBLICATIONS, 2022. p. 67-89.

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Husic, E, Loho, G, Smith, B & Vegh, LA 2022, On complete classes of valuated matroids. in N Bansal, C Coester, R Kumar, M Purohit & E Vee (eds), Proceedings of the 2022 Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA). SIAM PUBLICATIONS, pp. 67-89. https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611977073.4

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Husic, E., Loho, G., Smith, B., & Vegh, L. A. (2022). On complete classes of valuated matroids. In N. Bansal, C. Coester, R. Kumar, M. Purohit, & E. Vee (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2022 Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) (pp. 67-89). SIAM PUBLICATIONS. https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611977073.4

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Husic E, Loho G, Smith B, Vegh LA. On complete classes of valuated matroids. In Bansal N, Coester C, Kumar R, Purohit M, Vee E, editors, Proceedings of the 2022 Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA). SIAM PUBLICATIONS. 2022. p. 67-89 doi: 10.1137/1.9781611977073.4

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Husic, Edin ; Loho, Georg ; Smith, Ben et al. / On complete classes of valuated matroids. Proceedings of the 2022 Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA). editor / Nikhil Bansal ; Christian Coester ; Ravi Kumar ; Manish Purohit ; Erik Vee. SIAM PUBLICATIONS, 2022. pp. 67-89

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