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Periodic knots and desuspensions of free involutions on spheres

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Cruz, R.N. (1990). Periodic knots and desuspensions of free involutions on spheres. In: Latiolais, P. (eds) Topology and Combinatorial Group Theory. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1440. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0084448

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