Signatures, monopoles and mapping class groups

Mathematical Research Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 227-234

  Kotschick, D ^a  

^a Meteorol Inst   (Germany)

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EID: 0032219321     PISSN: 10732780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/mrl.1998.v5.n2.a9     Document Type: Article

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