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In this paper, we introduce a new characterisation of closed symplectically aspherical manifolds which can be understood as the symplectic analogue of the Shafarevich conjecture.
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Borat, A. A characterisation of symplectically aspherical manifolds. J. Fixed Point Theory Appl. 17, 477–482 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11784-014-0194-z
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