Cohomology for anyone

Foundations of Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1769-1796

  Rabson, David A ^a   Huesman, John F ^a   Fisher, Benji N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Algebraic topology; Cohomology; Crystallography; Homology; Space groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142137836     PISSN: 00159018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026281621848     Document Type: Article

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