Compact Stein surfaces with boundary as branched covers of B4

Inventiones Mathematicae

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 325-348

  Loi, Andrea ^a   Piergallini, Riccardo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

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EID: 0035644050     PISSN: 00209910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002220000106     Document Type: Article

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