The Volume Blow-Up and Characteristic Classes for Transverse, Type-Changing, Pseudo-Riemannian Metrics

Geometriae Dedicata

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-16

  Kossowski, Marek ^a   Kriele, Marcus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b FIELDS INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Characteristic classes; Pseudo Riemannian metrics; Symmetric (0, 2) tensors; Volume blow up

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042734179     PISSN: 00465755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004977925526     Document Type: Article

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