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A survey of papers on the theory of compositions and their application to the investigation of manifolds in spaces with fundamental groups is presented.

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Translated from Itogi Nauki i Tekhniki. Problemy Geometrii, Vol. 10, pp. 117–145, 1978.

I thank Érnst Gergardovich Neifel'd, whose paper [12] stimulated much of this survey, and who, moreover, showed me inestimable help in the formulation of my paper. In particular, he wrote Sec. 17.

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Norden, A.P. Theory of compositions. J Math Sci 14, 1241–1259 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01095472

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