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Wang, CP. (1987). On the gauss map of submanifold in Rn and Sn . In: Gu, C., Berger, M., Bryant, R.L. (eds) Differential Geometry and Differential Equations. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1255. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0077686
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