The geometry of degree-$4$ characteristic classes and of line bundles on loop spaces II

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The geometry of degree-$4$ characteristic classes and of line bundles on loop spaces II

J.-L. Brylinski and D. A. McLaughlin

Source: Duke Math. J. Volume 83, Number 1 (1996), 105-139.

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See also: J.-L. Brylinski, D. A. Mclaughlin. The geometry of degree-four characteristic classes and of line bundles on loop spaces I. Duke Math. J. Vol. 75, No. 3 (1994), pp. 603–638.

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