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The intimate connections among decomposition theory, embedding theory, and manifold structure theory

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Daverman, R.J. (1987). The intimate connections among decomposition theory, embedding theory, and manifold structure theory. In: Mardešić, S., Segal, J. (eds) Geometric Topology and Shape Theory. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1283. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0081417

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