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- Isotropy Subgroup
- Surgery Theory
- Equivariant Homotopy
- Surgery Obstruction
- Homotopy Sphere
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Dovermann, K.H., Schultz, R. (1990). Introduction to equivariant surgery. In: Equivariant Surgery Theories and Their Periodicity Properties. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1443. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0092356
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