Curvature and the heat equation for the de Rham complex (Q1162297)
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Curvature and the heat equation for the de Rham complex (English)
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1981
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compact Riemannian manifold without boundary
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Chern-Gauss-Bonnet theorem
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Euler-Poincare characteristic
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heat equation methods
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Laplacian on p- forms
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covariant derivatives of the curvature tensor
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Euler form
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