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A Kummer-type construction of self-dual 4-manifolds

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  1. Department of Mathematics, SUNY, 11794-3651, Stony Brook, NY, USA

    Claude LeBrun

  2. Lincoln College, OXI 3DR, Oxford, UK

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LeBrun, C., Singer, M. A Kummer-type construction of self-dual 4-manifolds. Math. Ann. 300, 165–180 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01450482

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