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The author is an A. P. Sloan fellow and was partially supported by an NSF grant. This paper was written at the Institut der hautes Etudes Scientifiques in 1973. The author wishes to thank the Institut for its hospitality.
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Cappell, S.E. On homotopy invariance of higher signatures. Invent Math 33, 171–179 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01402341
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