String theory and loop space index theorems

DOI10.1007/BF01239011zbMath0627.58033OpenAlexW2042624943MaRDI QIDQ1092489

Orlando Alvarez, Paul Windey, Michelangelo L. Mangano, Timothy P. Killingback

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01239011

zbMATH Keywords

index theoremsDirac-Ramond operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20)

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