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Fake spherical spaceforms of constant positive scalar curvature

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    Sławomir Kwasik & Reinhard Schultz

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    Sławomir Kwasik & Reinhard Schultz

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The first named author was partially supported by NSF Grants DMS 89-01583 and 91-01575, and the second named author was partially supported by NSF Grants DMS 86-02543, 89-02622, 91-02711, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (Berkeley, CA).

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Kwasik, S., Schultz, R. Fake spherical spaceforms of constant positive scalar curvature. Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici 71, 1–40 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02566407

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