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Supported in part by the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. The second author also thanks the third author and the Université Catholique de Louvain for their hospitality

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Bayer-Fluckiger, E., Shapiro, D.B. & Tignol, J.P. Hyperbolic involutions. Math Z 214, 461–476 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02572417

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