Compact 3-Sasakian 7-manifolds with arbitrary second Betti number

Inventiones Mathematicae

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 321-344

  Boyer, Charles P ^a   Galicki, Krzysztof ^a   Mann, Benjamin M ^a   Rees, Elmer G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0032354250     PISSN: 00209910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002220050207     Document Type: Article

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