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Diffeomorphisms and noncommutative analytic torsion

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John Lott

Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year: 1999; Volume 141, Number 673
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-1189-4 (print); 978-1-4704-0264-8 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/0673
MathSciNet review: 1618772
MSC: Primary 58J52; Secondary 19D99, 58J22, 58J42

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Table of Contents

Chapters

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Noncommutative bundle theory
• 3. Groups and covering spaces
• 4. $\mathfrak {B}$-Hermitian metrics and characteristic classes
• 5. Noncommutative superconnections
• 6. Fiber bundles
• 7. Diffeomorphism groups