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Some special presentations of homotopy 3-spheres

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Haken, W. (1974). Some special presentations of homotopy 3-spheres. In: Dickman, R.F., Fletcher, P. (eds) Topology Conference. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 375. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0064015

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