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Author(s): David D. Bleecker
Title: Gauge theory and variational principles
Additional book information: Global Analysis: Pure and Applied, Series A, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., Reading, Mass., 1981, xviii+180 pp., $17.50, ISBN 0-2011-0096-7

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Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 9 (1983), 83-92.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1983-15163-7
PII: S 0273-0979(1983)15163-7

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