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This is the reply to the comment arXiv:0801.4620 by Vidal, Dusuel, and Schmidt.
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This is an appendix to our paper "An update of the Hirsch Conjecture" (arXiv:0907.1186), containing proofs of some of the results and comments that were omitted in it.
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Comment on ``Lancaster Probabilities and Gibbs Sampling'' [arXiv:0808.3852]
Over one year ago, a very long preprint posted on arXiv [arXiv:1709.03771] and HAL announced a proof of Lehmer's Conjecture (and of other related results). Unfortunately, as was remarked by several specialists, this proof contains a (at…
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