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A knot characterization and $1$–connected nonnegatively curved $4$–manifolds with circle symmetry

Karsten Grove and Burkhard Wilking

Geometry & Topology 18 (2014) 3091–3110

DOI: 10.2140/gt.2014.18.3091

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