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Chelyabinsk. Translated from Sibirskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 28, No. 6, pp. 66–80, November–December, 1987.
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Matveev, S.V. Zeeman's conjecture for unthickened special polyhedra is equivalent to the Andrews-Curtis conjecture. Sib Math J 28, 917–928 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00969470
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