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Poincaré conjecture and related statements. (English. Russian original) Zbl 1149.57311

Russ. Math. 51, No. 9, 1-36 (2007); translation from Izv. Vyssh. Uchebn. Zaved., Mat. 2007, No. 9, 3-41 (2007).
From the introduction: The main topic of our paper is discussion of equivalent statements, strengthening and corollaries of the Poincaré conjecture.

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57M40 Characterizations of the Euclidean \(3\)-space and the \(3\)-sphere (MSC2010)
57P10 Poincaré duality spaces
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