Hypersurface complements, Milnor fibers and higher homotopy groups of arrangments

Annals of Mathematics

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 473-507

  Dimca, Alexandru ^a   Papadima, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^b ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

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EID: 0348173691     PISSN: 0003486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4007/annals.2003.158.473     Document Type: Article

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