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The Monge-Ampère operator and geodesics in the space of Kähler potentials

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    Jacob Sturm

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Phong, D., Sturm, J. The Monge-Ampère operator and geodesics in the space of Kähler potentials. Invent. math. 166, 125–149 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00222-006-0512-1

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