Homotopy invariance of novikov-shubin invariants and L2 betti numbers

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 125, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 3757-3762

  Block, Jonathan ^a   Mathai, Varghese ^b   Weinberger, Shmuel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Homotopy invariance; L2 betti numbers; Novikov shubin invariants; Von neumann algebras

Indexed keywords

EID: 21944452082     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9939-97-04154-3     Document Type: Article

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