The homological invariants for metabelian groups of finite Prüfer rank: A proof of the Σm-conjecture

Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 385-424

  Meinert, Holger ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 0001168381     PISSN: 00246115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1112/plms/s3-72.2.385     Document Type: Article

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