The paper is an overview of our results concerning the existence of various structures, especially complex and quaternionic, in 8-dimensional vector bundles over closed connected smooth 8-manifolds.
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Čadek, Martin; Vanžura, Jiří. Various structures in 8-dimensional vector bundles over 8-manifolds. Banach Center Publications, Tome 43 (1998) pp. 183-197. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.bwnjournal-article-bcpv45i1p183bwm/
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