Yang-Mills detour complexes and conformal geometry

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 278, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 307-327

  Gover, A Rod ^a   Somberg, Petr ^b   Souček, Vladimír ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

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EID: 38749090908     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: 14320916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00220-007-0401-5     Document Type: Article

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