Einstein metrics and complex singularities

Inventiones Mathematicae

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 405-443

  Calderbank, David M J ^a   Singer, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 2442576988     PISSN: 00209910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00222-003-0344-1     Document Type: Article

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