Positive scalar curvature and the Dirac operator on complete riemannian manifolds

Mikhael Gromov; H. Blaine Lawson

Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS (1983)

  • Volume: 58, page 83-196
  • ISSN: 0073-8301

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Gromov, Mikhael, and Lawson, H. Blaine. "Positive scalar curvature and the Dirac operator on complete riemannian manifolds." Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS 58 (1983): 83-196. <http://eudml.org/doc/103996>.

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