Triviality of Bloch and Bloch-Dirac bundles

Annales Henri Poincare

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 995-1011

  Panati, Gianluca ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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EID: 34748863542     PISSN: 14240637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00023-007-0326-8     Document Type: Article

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