Gauge Invariance of Degenerate Riemannian Metrics
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Gauge Invariance of Degenerate Riemannian Metrics
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Notices of the American Mathematical Society
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0002-9920,1088-9477
DOI: 10.1090/noti1350