A construction of surface bundles over surfaces with non-zero signature

Osaka Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 915-930

  Endo, Hisaaki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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