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Minimal atlases of real projective spaces

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Hopkins, M.J. (1989). Minimal atlases of real projective spaces. In: Carlsson, G., Cohen, R., Miller, H., Ravenel, D. (eds) Algebraic Topology. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1370. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0085228

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