Self-equivalences of $\left( {n - 1} \right)$-connected $2n$-manifolds
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عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
سال: 1966
ISSN: 0002-9904
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9904-1966-11542-2