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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon, 97403, Eugene, OR, USA

    Boris Botvinnik & Peter B. Gilkey

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Botvinnik, B., Gilkey, P.B. The eta invariant and metrics of positive scalar curvature. Math. Ann. 302, 507–517 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01444505

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