Extremal contractions from $4$-dimensional manifolds to $3$-folds

Kachi, Yasuyuki

Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze, Série 4, Tome 24 (1997) no. 1, pp. 63-131.

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