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Author(s): K. H. Dovermann and Reinhard Schultz
Title: Equivariant surgery theories and their periodicity properties
Additional book information: Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol.~1443, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1990, 225 pp. US$24.00. ISBN 3-540-53042-8


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Reviewer(s):
Mel Rothenberg

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1993), 375-382.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1993-00368-9
PII: S 0273-0979(1993)00368-9




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