Self-adjoint elliptic operators and manifold decompositions part II: Spectral flow and maslov index

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 869-909

  Cappell, Sylvain E ^a   Lee, Ronnie ^c   Miller, Edward Y ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0008993194     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0312(199609)49:9<869::AID-CPA1>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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