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Algebraic Topology Waterloo 1978 pp 90–101Cite as

Whitehead torsion for PL fiber homotopy equivalences

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  1. Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1

    Peter Hoffman

  2. Department of Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5B9

    Victor Snaith

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Munkholm, H.J. (1979). Whitehead torsion for PL fiber homotopy equivalences. In: Hoffman, P., Snaith, V. (eds) Algebraic Topology Waterloo 1978. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 741. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0062136

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