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### Volume 85, Number 1

#### Publication Date: October 1996

Stacks of stable maps and Gromov-Witten invariants

K. Behrend and Yu. Manin; 1-60

Combinatorics of Fulton’s essential set

Kimmo Eriksson and Svante Linusson; 61-76

Global bifurcation results for a semilinear elliptic equation on all of $\mathbb{R}^N$

K. J. Brown and N. Stavrakakis; 77-94

Correlation for surfaces of general type

Brendan Hassett; 95-107

On stable minimal surfaces in manifolds of positive bi-Ricci curvatures

Ying Shen and Rugang Ye; 109-116

Local statistics for random domino tilings of the Aztec diamond

Henry Cohn, Noam Elkies and James Propp; 117-166

On the multiplicities of the discrete series of semisimple Lie groups

Kaoru Hiraga; 167-181

Higher Chow groups and the Hodge-$\mathcal{D}$-conjecture

James D. Lewis; 183-207

Lagrangian intersection under Legendrian deformations

Kaoru Ono; 209-225

Restriction theorems and semilinear Klein-Gordon equations in $(1+3)$-dimensions

Hans Lindblad and Christopher D. Sogge; 227-252

Sobolev inequalities and Myers’s diameter theorem for an abstract Markov generator

D. Bakry and M. Ledoux; 253-270

Correction to “Congruences between cusp forms: The $(p,p)$ case”

Chandrashekhar Khare; 271