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Almost all simply connected closed surfaces are rigid

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  1. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Herman Gluck

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Leslie Curtis Glaser Thomas Benjamin Rushing

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Gluck, H. (1975). Almost all simply connected closed surfaces are rigid. In: Glaser, L.C., Rushing, T.B. (eds) Geometric Topology. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 438. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0066118

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