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Tight spherical embeddings

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  1. Department of Mathematics, College of the Holy Cross, 01610, Worcester, MA

    Thomas E. Cecil

  2. Department of Mathematics, Indiana University at South Bend, 46615, South Bend, IN

    Patrick J. Ryan

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Cecil, T.E., Ryan, P.J. (1981). Tight spherical embeddings. In: Ferus, D., Kühnel, W., Simon, U., Wegner, B. (eds) Global Differential Geometry and Global Analysis. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 838. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0088845

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