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Schultz, R. (1984). Upper bounds for the toral symmetry of certain homotopy spheres. In: Madsen, I.H., Oliver, R.A. (eds) Algebraic Topology Aarhus 1982. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1051. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0075594
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