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Inventiones mathematicae

, Volume 90, Issue 3, pp 551–577 | Cite as

Characteristic classes of surface bundles

  • Shigeyuki Morita
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Characteristic Classis Surface Bundle 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Shigeyuki Morita
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  1. 1.Department of Mathematics, Faculty of ScienceTokyo Institute of TechnologyMeguro, TokyoJapan

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