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  1. University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Wu-Yi Hsiang

  2. University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Per Tomter

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Acknowledgements. The second author expresses his gratitude for a travel grant from the Norwegian Council for the Science and Humanities (NAVF), which enabled him to visit the University of California in the summer 1980.

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Hsiang, WY., Tomter, P. Transformation groups on complex Stiefel manifolds. Acta Math 152, 107–126 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02392193

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