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Locally flat 2-spheres in simply connected 4-manifolds

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    Ronnie Lee & Dariusz M. Wilczyński

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    Ronnie Lee & Dariusz M. Wilczyński

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Lee, R., Wilczyński, D.M. Locally flat 2-spheres in simply connected 4-manifolds. Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici 65, 388–412 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02566615

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