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The aim of this paper is to study the local geometry of a conformally flat manifold which admits local isometric immersions in some Euclidean space with low codimension.
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Noronha, M.H. Conformally flat immersions in codimension two. Geom Dedicata 23, 115–130 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00147397
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