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Homotopy groups of the moduli space of metrics of positive scalar curvature

Boris Botvinnik, Bernhard Hanke, Thomas Schick and Mark Walsh

Geometry & Topology 14 (2010) 2047–2076

DOI: 10.2140/gt.2010.14.2047

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