J-Holornorphic Curves, Moment Maps, and Invariants of Hamiltonian Group Actions

International Mathematics Research Notices

Volumn 2000, Issue 16, 2000, Pages

  Cieliebak, Kai ^a   Gaio, Ana Rita ^b   Salamon, Dietmar A ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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