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Characteristic invariants of free differentiable actions of S1 and S3 on homotopy spheres

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Ku, HT., Ku, MC. (1972). Characteristic invariants of free differentiable actions of S1 and S3 on homotopy spheres. In: Ku, H.T., Mann, L.N., Sicks, J.L., Su, J.C. (eds) Proceedings of the Second Conference on Compact Transformation Groups. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 298. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0070032

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