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  1. Department of Mathematics, College of the Holy Cross, 01610, Worcester, MA, USA

    Thomas E. Cecil

  2. Department of Mathematics, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Shiing-Shen Chern

  3. Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, 1000 Centennial Drive, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Shiing-Shen Chern

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Dedicated to Friedrich Hirzebruch on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday

This work was done while the author was on sabbatical at the University of California, Berkeley in 1985–86

Work done under support of NSF Grant No. DMS84-03201

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Cecil, T.E., Chern, SS. Tautness and Lie sphere geometry. Math. Ann. 278, 381–399 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01458076

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