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The author is an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and was partly supported by an NSF grant and a DFG fellowship.
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Wilking, B. Torus actions on manifolds of positive sectional curvature. Acta Math. 191, 259–297 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02392966
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