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A vanishing theorem for tautological classes of aspherical manifolds

Fabian Hebestreit, Markus Land, Wolfgang Lück and Oscar Randal-Williams

Geometry & Topology 25 (2021) 47–110

DOI: 10.2140/gt.2021.25.47

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