The cohomology rings of abelian symplectic quotients
Susan Tolman, Jonathan Weitsman
发表信息：
The cohomology rings of symplectic quotients. Communications in Analysis and Geometry 11, 751-774 (2003) (Includes the case of quotients by nonabelian groups)
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