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Author(s): N. Berline, E. Getzler and M. Vergne
Title: Heat kernels and Dirac operators
Additional book information: Grundlehren Math. Wiss., vol. 298, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1992, vii + 369, $79.00, ISBN 3-540-53340-0


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Additional Information:

Reviewer(s):
Rafe Mazzeo
Affiliation: Stanford University
Email: mazzeo@math.stanford.edu

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1996), 125-129.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-96-00633-7
PII: S 0273-0979(96)00633-7
Copyright of article: Copyright 1996, American Mathematical Society


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