Higher Spectral Flow

Journal of Functional Analysis

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 432-469

  Dai, Xianzhe ^a   Zhang, Weiping ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 0000417616     PISSN: 00221236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jfan.1998.3273     Document Type: Article

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