Existence of irreducible representations for knot complements with nonconstant equivariant signature

Mathematische Annalen

Volumn 309, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-35

  Herald, Christopher M ^a  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0031481933     PISSN: 00255831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002080050099     Document Type: Article

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