Flat connections, the Alexander invariant, and Casson’s invariant
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Communications in Analysis and Geometry
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1019-8385,1944-9992
DOI: 10.4310/cag.1997.v5.n1.a2