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A linking invariant of classical link concordance

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Goldsmith, D.L. (1978). A linking invariant of classical link concordance. In: Hausmann, JC. (eds) Knot Theory. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 685. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0062970

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