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Normal bundles for codimension 2 locally flat imbeddings

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  1. University of California, Berkeley, California

    R. C. Kirby & L. C. Siebenmann

  2. University of Paris, Orsay, France

    R. C. Kirby & L. C. Siebenmann

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Kirby, R.C., Siebenmann, L.C. (1975). Normal bundles for codimension 2 locally flat imbeddings. In: Glaser, L.C., Rushing, T.B. (eds) Geometric Topology. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 438. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0066125

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