Distinguishing isospectral nilmanifolds by bundle Laplacians

Mathematical Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 23-33

  Gordon, Carolyn ^a   Ouyang, He ^b   Schueth, Dorothee ^c  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^b Univ Bonn ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

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EID: 0031286856     PISSN: 10732780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/MRL.1997.v4.n1.a3     Document Type: Article

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