On the floer homology of cotangent bundles

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 254-316

  Abbondandolo, Alberto ^a,c   Schwarz, Matthias ^b  

^a SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

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EID: 33645309372     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: 00103640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.20090     Document Type: Article

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