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Work done while author was a Visiting Scientist under the auspices of the Mathematical Sciences Department, IBM Thomas T. Wabon Research Center, on leave from the City University of New York, Lehman College and Graduate Center.
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Dyer, J.L., Formanek, E. & Grossman, E.K. On the linearity of automorphism groups of free groups. Arch. Math 38, 404–409 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01304807
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