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AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY mite beometrles ana Corn binatorial Designs Proceedings of the AMS Special Session in Finite Geometries and Combinatorial Designs held October 29-November 1, 1987 http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/111 Titles in This Series Volume 1 Markov random fields and their 19 Proceedings of the Northwestern applications, Ross Kindermann and homotopy theory conference, Haynes J. Laurie Snell R. Miller and Stewart B. Priddy, Editors 2 Proceedings of the conference on 20 Low dimensional topology, Samuel J. integration, topology, and geometry in Lomonaco, Jr., Editor linear spaces, William H. Graves, Editor 21 Topological methods in nonlinear 3 The closed graph and P-closed functional analysis, S. P. Singh, graph properties in general topology, S. Thomaier, and B. Watson, Editors T. R. Hamlett and L. L. 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    A Complete Bibliography of Publications in Zeitschrift f¨ur Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und verwandte Gebiete Nelson H. F. Beebe University of Utah Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB 155 S 1400 E RM 233 Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090 USA Tel: +1 801 581 5254 FAX: +1 801 581 4148 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] (Internet) WWW URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ 13 October 2017 Version 1.03 Title word cross-reference (r; p) [Tak84]. 0 [JK69, R¨os77a]. 0 <p≤ 1 [Her74b]. 1 [HQ85, Hel82, JK69, R¨os77a, Sla72, Tan63, Tuo76]. 1=2∆u + qu = 0 [Fal83a]. 1=n [Bor70a]. 2 [Mic72b, Roy75b]. 3 [Don65]. 3 × 3[Fry80,JR79]. ∗ [Hig82]. + [BF83]. p [Ber80, FS74]. α [Acz64, Che68, Cre75, DJ74]. B [Mor81, Mor82]. B + L [EP82]. B0 [Tie62].ρ ¯ [Gun79a]. C [Sch71b]. C(S) 1 [Gin76, Hei77, Led82]. C[0; 1] [Kue76]. C [Fab66]. = f(nkx) ^ [Ber76a, Ber76b]. chi2 [ERV65, R¨us65, ERV65, R¨us65]. D [DH78, Hah78, Web80a, BKS82, Wsc82]. ∆ [R¨us80a]. E [TM71b]. e(λ) 2 1 [Tor76]. Ek(X; Y ) [CSS76]. [Uus76]. EX1 = [Sto79]. f [KP66, Wat70]. γ [Fie71a]. [CGH78]. H [Kue73]. Hγ [Kle63]. H1 [CHP73]. Hp 2 [Kaz79, Pro78]. Hp [Her74b]. I [Bol78]. 1 [KL65]. J [GO76]. K [Bla76b, Bur79, Emc74, ABH84, Bil66, Deh83d, DD84, GR84a, ST77]. 1 2 k ≤ c log n [DD84]. L [Dav71, O'C79, iSY78]. L(Rd) [HS80]. L1 2 p [SA75, Eng76, Sch77]. L [B¨uh63, Sch69c, Sul84]. L [RS77, Sj¨o82]. L0 [MP77]. L1 [DW80, Tra75]. L2 [FD81a, HS76]. L1 [Hor72c]. L1[0; 1] [Kim72b].