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Towards a theory of relativizations: Positive relativizations

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 93106, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

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Book, R.V. (1987). Towards a theory of relativizations: Positive relativizations. In: Brandenburg, F.J., Vidal-Naquet, G., Wirsing, M. (eds) STACS 87. STACS 1987. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 247. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0039591

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