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G-s-cobordism theorems do not hold in general for many compact lie groups G

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Osaka University, Toyonaka, 560, Osaka, Japan

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Dedicated to professor Shôrô Araki on his 60th birthday

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Kawakubo, K. (1989). G-s-cobordism theorems do not hold in general for many compact lie groups G. In: Kawakubo, K. (eds) Transformation Groups. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1375. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0085608

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