Gravitational anomalies and the family's index theorem

DOI10.1007/BF01214584zbMath0587.58042MaRDI QIDQ1072197

I. M. Singer, Orlando Alvarez, Bruno Zumino

Publication date: 1984

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

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic classesgravitational anomaliesK-theoryindex theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80)

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