Proposition 2.8 [014G]

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Proposition 2.8

If $f:X\rightarrow B$ is as in Theorem 2.1 and $B\cong S^{3}$ , then $w_{2}(X)$ , the second Steifel-Whitney class of $X$ , vanishes.