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Knot cobordism groups in codimension two

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Research supported in part by NSF Grant No. 6868. The author is a Sloan Foundation Fellow. It has been brought to my attention that many of the results of this paper have been independently of obtained byF. Ungoed-Thomas.

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Levine, J. Knot cobordism groups in codimension two. Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici 44, 229–244 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02564525

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