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On fibering four- and five-manifolds

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This paper studies the question of which manifolds fiber over the circle in dimensions four and five.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

    Shmuel Weinberger

  2. Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Shmuel Weinberger

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Partially supported by an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship.

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Weinberger, S. On fibering four- and five-manifolds. Israel J. Math. 59, 1–7 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02779663

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