Minimal immersions of low dimensional manifolds

Minimal immersions of low dimensional manifolds
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 66 (1977), 347-350 Request permission

We show that if M is a spin n-manifold, $n \leqslant 7$, then M immerses in ${{\mathbf {R}}^{n + 3}}$.

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