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The author is an A. P. Sloan Fellow and was partially supported by an NSF Grant MPS 75-07874. This paper was written at the Weizmann Institute of Science and at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques in 1972–73. The author wishes to thank those institutions for their hospitality
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Cappell, S.E. A splitting theorem for manifolds. Invent Math 33, 69–170 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01402340
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