Gravitation, Gauge Theories and Differential Geometry

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, California 94305, USA and The Enrico Fermi Institute and Department of Physics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, illinois, USA Peter B. GILKEY Fine Hall, Box 37. Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA and Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90007, USA and Andrew J. HANSON

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