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A short proof of the existence of additive inverses of topological microbundles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

R. W. West
R. W. West
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
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In this note we prove the following result due to Milnor ((5), Theorem 4·1).

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 63 , Issue 3 , July 1967 , pp. 587 - 589
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1967

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