The hypoelliptic Laplacian on the cotangent bundle

Journal of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 379-476

  Bismut, Jean Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Hodge theory; Hypoelliptic equations; Index theory and related fixed point theorems

Indexed keywords

EID: 18144362474     PISSN: 08940347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0894-0347-05-00479-0     Document Type: Article

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