## Journal of Differential Geometry

### ${\rm GR}={\rm SW}$: counting curves and connections

Clifford Henry Taubes

#### Article information

Source
J. Differential Geom. Volume 52, Number 3 (1999), 453-609.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 25 June 2008

http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1214425348

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR1761081

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1040.53096

#### Citation

Taubes, Clifford Henry. ${\rm GR}={\rm SW}$: counting curves and connections. J. Differential Geom. 52 (1999), no. 3, 453--609. http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1214425348.

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