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The generalized whitehead torsion of a g fibre homotopy equivalence

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Dovermann, K.H., Rothenberg, M. (1989). The generalized whitehead torsion of a g fibre homotopy equivalence. In: Kawakubo, K. (eds) Transformation Groups. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1375. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0085600

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