Brackets, forms and invariant functionals

Asian Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 541-560

  Hitchin, Nigel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Courant bracket; Generalized geometry; Gerbe; Skew torsion

Indexed keywords

EID: 49649089777     PISSN: 10936106     EISSN: 19450036     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4310/AJM.2006.v10.n3.a3     Document Type: Article

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