Cobordism, relative indices and stein fillings

Journal of Geometric Analysis

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 341-368

  Epstein, Charles L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Almost complex manifolds; Bojarski's theorem; Contact manifold; Index formula; Modified Neumann condition; Relative index conjecture; Spin Dirac operator; Subelliptic boundary value problem; Tame Fredholm pairs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867960235     PISSN: 10506926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12220-008-9010-6     Document Type: Article

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