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Equivariant connected sums of compact self-dual manifolds

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    Henrik Pedersen

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    Yat Sun Poon

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Pedersen, H., Poon, Y.S. Equivariant connected sums of compact self-dual manifolds. Math. Ann. 301, 717–749 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01446656

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