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Quadratic forms and the Birman-Craggs homomorphisms. (English) Zbl 0457.57006


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57N05 Topology of the Euclidean \(2\)-space, \(2\)-manifolds (MSC2010)
57N10 Topology of general \(3\)-manifolds (MSC2010)
20F34 Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects)
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