Analytic torsion and holomorphic determinant bundles

Self-duality in four-dimensional Riemannian geometry

Michael Atiyah, Nigel Hitchin, I. M. Singer · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences · 1978 · 1.5K citations

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R-Torsion and the Laplacian on Riemannian manifolds

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On the heat equation and the index theorem

Michael Atiyah, R. Bott, V. K. Patodi · Inventiones mathematicae · 1973 · 746 citations

Natural Sciences, Physics, Differential Equations +13

Harmonic Spinors

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The Index of Elliptic Operators: IV

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