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Concise tables of James numbers and some homotopy of classical Lie groups and associated homogeneous spaces

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Lundell, A.T. (1992). Concise tables of James numbers and some homotopy of classical Lie groups and associated homogeneous spaces. In: Aguadé, J., Castellet, M., Cohen, F.R. (eds) Algebraic Topology Homotopy and Group Cohomology. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1509. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0087515

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