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E. Verlinde’s formula for the dimension of the nonabelian θ-functions is discussed from an algebraic geometry point of view and related to certain quotient rings of the representative ring of sums.
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Bott, R. (2017). [96] On E. Verlinde’s Formula in the Context of Stable Bundles. In: Tu, L. (eds) Raoul Bott: Collected Papers . Contemporary Mathematicians. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51781-0_20
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