The homotopy type of the matroid grassmannian

Annals of Mathematics

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 929-952

  Biss, Daniel K ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4007/annals.2003.158.929     Document Type: Article

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