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On the obstruction group to existence of riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature

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  1. Institute of Mathematics, Wrocław University, pl. Grunwaldzki 2/4, 50-384, Wrocław, Poland

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Hajduk, B. (1991). On the obstruction group to existence of riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature. In: Ferus, D., Pinkall, U., Simon, U., Wegner, B. (eds) Global Differential Geometry and Global Analysis. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1481. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0083629

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