Generic metrics, irreducible rank-one PU(2) monopoles, and transversality

Communications in Analysis and Geometry

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 905-967

  Feehan, Paul M N ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0011934017     PISSN: 10198385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/CAG.2000.v8.n5.a1     Document Type: Article

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