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8 - Morse theory and stable pairs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2011

By
Richard A. Wentworth  and
Graeme Wilkin
Edited by
Roger Bielawski ,
Kevin Houston  and
Martin Speight
Richard A. Wentworth
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland
Graeme Wilkin
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado
Roger Bielawski
Affiliation:
University of Leeds
Kevin Houston
Affiliation:
University of Leeds
Martin Speight
Affiliation:
University of Leeds
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Variational Problems in Differential Geometry , pp. 142 - 181
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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