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The paper gives a survey of the most recent transcendental methods in the theory of three-dimensional algebraic manifolds.
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Translated from Itogi Nauki i Tekhniki, Sovremennye Problemy Matematiki, Vol. 12, pp. 5–57, 1979.
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Tyurin, A.N. The middle Jacobian of three-dimensional varieties. J Math Sci 13, 707–745 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01084562
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