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In this paper we prove that there exist no codimension two immersions of oriented Grassmann manifolds into Euclidean spaces, except for\(\tilde G_{4,2} ,\tilde G_{6,3} \), and spheres.
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Zi-Zhou, T. Codimension two immersions of oriented Grassmann manifolds. Manuscripta Math 88, 165–170 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02567813
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02567813