The Euler characteristic of vector fields on Banach manifolds and the problem of Plateau
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Tromba, Antony. The Euler characteristic of vector fields on Banach manifolds and the problem of Plateau, in Journées sur la géométrie de la dimension infinie (Lyon, 1975), Mémoires de la Société Mathématique de France, no. 46 (1976), pp. 83-89. doi : 10.24033/msmf.187. http://archive.numdam.org/articles/10.24033/msmf.187/

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