Algebraic & Geometric Topology Volume 7, issue 1 (2007)

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String bracket and flat connections

Hossein Abbaspour and Mahmoud Zeinalian

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 7 (2007) 197–231

DOI: 10.2140/agt.2007.7.197

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