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Splitting the spectral flow and the $\mathrm{SU}(3)$ Casson invariant for spliced sums

Hans U Boden and Benjamin Himpel

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 9 (2009) 865–902

DOI: 10.2140/agt.2009.9.865

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