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Handle decompositions of simply connected smooth or piecewise linear five-manifolds are considered. The basic notions and constructions necessary for proving further results are introduced.
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Published in Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 45, No. 9, pp. 1282–1288, November, 1993.
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Shkol'nikov, Y.A. Handle decompositions of simply-connected five-manifolds. II. Ukr Math J 45, 1438–1444 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01058642
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