Four-manifold systoles and surjectivity of period map

Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 772-786

  Katz, Mikhail ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Conformal invariants; Conway Thompson lattices; Period map; Systole

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242319579     PISSN: 00102571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00014-003-0774-9     Document Type: Article

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