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In this paper, we adapt part of Weinberger, Xie and Yu's breakthrough work, to define additive higher rho invariant for topological structure group by differential geometric version of signature operators, or in other words, unbounded…
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An algorithm is described to convert Lorentz and gauge invariant expressions in non--Abelian gauge theories with matter into a standard form, consisting of a linear combination of basis invariants. This algorithm is needed for computer…