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In the present paper, we consider the following magnetic nonlinear Choquard equation $$ \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} & (-i \nabla+A(x))^2u + \mu g(x)u = \lambda u + (|x|^{-\alpha} * |u|^{2^*_\alpha})|u|^{2^*_\alpha-2}u ,\; u>0 \;\text{in} \;…

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