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Translated from Sibirskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 14, No. 6, pp. 1321–1335, November–December, 1973.
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Sharafutdinov, V.A. Relative Euler class and the Gauss-Bonnet theorem. Sib Math J 14, 930–940 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00975899
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