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Curvature and the heat equation for the de Rham complex

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Research partially supported by NSF grant MCS76-23465 and by Sloan Foundation Grant BR-1687.

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Gilkey, P.B. Curvature and the heat equation for the de Rham complex. Proc Math Sci 90, 47–79 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02867017

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