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Author(s): Xiaonan Ma and George Marinescu
Title: Holomorphic Morse inequalities and Bergman kernels
Additional book information: Progress in Mathematics, 254, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, 2007, xiv+422 pp., US$79.95, ISBN 978-3-7643-8096-0

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Additional Information:

Reviewer(s):
Steve Zelditch
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 21218
Email: zelditch@math.jhu.edu

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 46 (2009), 349-361.

MSC (2000): Primary 53C55, 32Q15, 32L10, 32A25, 32A60
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-08-01224-X
PII: S 0273-0979(08)01224-X
Posted: October 14, 2008
Additional notes: Research partially supported by NSF grant DMS-0603850.
Copyright of article: Copyright 2008, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.




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