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Classification of bubble-sheet ovals in $\mathbb{R}^4$

Beomjun Choi, Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Wenkui Du, Robert Haslhofer and Nataša Šešum

Geometry & Topology 29 (2025) 931–1016

DOI: 10.2140/gt.2025.29.931

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