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Fields of tangentk-Planes on manifolds

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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. Fields of tangentk-Planes on manifolds. Invent Math 3, 334–347 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01402957

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