Generalized symplectic geometries and the index of families of elliptic problems

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 128, Issue 609, 1997, Pages

  Nicolaescu, Liviu I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary value problems; Cald ron projectors; Clifford algebras; Dirac operators; Generalized Maslov index; Generalized symplectic reduction; Generalized symplectic spaces; Index of families; Karoubi's Kp,q theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041087814     PISSN: 00659266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/memo/0609     Document Type: Article

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