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Handle decompositions of simply connected smooth or piecewise linear five-manifolds are considered. The basic concepts and constructions necessary for proving our main result are introduced.
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Published in Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 45, No. 8, pp. 1151–1156, August, 1993.
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Shkol'nikov, Y.A. Handle decompositions of simply connected five-manifolds. I. Ukr Math J 45, 1285–1290 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01070976
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01070976