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Pontryagin numbers and periodic diffeomorphisms of spheres

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Schultz, R. (1989). Pontryagin numbers and periodic diffeomorphisms of spheres. In: Kawakubo, K. (eds) Transformation Groups. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1375. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0085619

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