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Dehn surgery on knots in 3-manifolds

Author(s): Marc Lackenby
Journal: J. Amer. Math. Soc. 10 (1997), 835-864.
MSC (1991): Primary 57N10; Secondary 57M25
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Marc Lackenby
Affiliation: Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1SB, England
Email: ml128@pmms.cam.ac.uk

DOI: 10.1090/S0894-0347-97-00241-5
PII: S 0894-0347(97)00241-5
Received by editor(s): April 26, 1996
Received by editor(s) in revised form: April 22, 1997
Copyright of article: Copyright 1997, American Mathematical Society


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