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Research supported by the National Science Foundation. The author is a Professor in the Miller Institute for Basic Research (Berkeley).

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Thomas, E. Vector fields on low dimensional manifolds. Math Z 103, 85–93 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01110620

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