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On characteristic classes of compact homogeneous spaces and their applications in compact transformation groups I

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    Wu-Yi Hsiang

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During the preparation of this paper, the author was a Miller Professor and partially supported by National Science Foundation Grant MCS75-23180-A01.

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Hsiang, WY. On characteristic classes of compact homogeneous spaces and their applications in compact transformation groups I. Bol. Soc. Bras. Mat 10, 87–161 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02584633

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