Spin and Abelian Electromagnetic Duality¶on Four-Manifolds
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Communications in Mathematical Physics
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0010-3616,1432-0916
DOI: 10.1007/s002200000354