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Dedicated to Sir William Hodge on his seventieth birthday
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Atiyah, M., Bott, R. & Patodi, V.K. On the heat equation and the index theorem. Invent Math 19, 279–330 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01425417
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