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Invariants of $4$–manifolds from Khovanov–Rozansky link homology

Scott Morrison, Kevin Walker and Paul Wedrich

Geometry & Topology 26 (2022) 3367–3420

DOI: 10.2140/gt.2022.26.3367

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