Every CW-complex is a classifying space for proper bundles

Topology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 539-550

  Leary, Ian J ^a   Nucinkis, Brita E A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Actions of discrete groups; CW complex; Homotopy type

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035343727     PISSN: 00409383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-9383(99)00073-7     Document Type: Article

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