Miyanishi's characterization of the affine 3-space does not hold in higher dimensions
Annales de l'Institut Fourier, Volume 50 (2000) no. 6, pp. 1649-1669.

We present an example which confirms the assertion of the title.

Nous présentons un exemple qui confirme l’assertion du titre.

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Kaliman, Shulim; Zaidenberg, Mikhail. Miyanishi's characterization of the affine 3-space does not hold in higher dimensions. Annales de l'Institut Fourier, Volume 50 (2000) no. 6, pp. 1649-1669. doi : 10.5802/aif.1803. http://archive.numdam.org/articles/10.5802/aif.1803/

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