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Projective space immersions, bilinear maps and stable homotopy groups of spheres

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Berrick, A.J. (1980). Projective space immersions, bilinear maps and stable homotopy groups of spheres. In: Koschorke, U., Neumann, W.D. (eds) Topology Symposium Siegen 1979. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 788. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0099235

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