Gerbes, simplicial forms and invariants for families of foliated bundles

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 253, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 253-282

  Dupont, Johan L ^a   Kamber, Franz W ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 11944270699     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00220-004-1193-5     Document Type: Article

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