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(2024) Some obstructions to positive scalar curvature on a noncompact manifold
(2023) The Ray-Singer torsion, to appear, Bulletin of the AMS

(2024) On 3-manifolds with pointwise pinched nonnegative Ricci curvature, Math. Annalen 388, p. 2787-2806
(2023) A spinorial quasilocal mass, J. Math. Phys. 64, 122502
(2022) On scalar curvature lower bounds and scalar curvature measure, Adv. in Math. 408, 108612 Addendum
(2021) Comparison geometry of holomorphic bisectional curvature for Kaehler manifolds and limit spaces, Duke Math. J. 170, p. 3039-3071
(2021) Index theory for scalar curvature on manifolds with boundary, Proc. of the AMS 149, p. 4451-4459

(2021) Kasner-like regions near crushing singularities, Class. and Quantum Gravity 38, 055005
(2020) The collapsing geometry of almost Ricci-flat 4-manifolds, Comm. Math. Helv. 95, p. 79-98
(2020) Singular Ricci flows II, with Bruce Kleiner, in Geometric Analysis, Birkhauser Prog. in Math. Series, vol. 333, eds. J. Chen, P. Lu, Z. Lu and Z. Zhang, Birkhauser, Boston, p. 137-155
(2020) On the initial geometry of a vacuum cosmological spacetime, Class. and Quantum Gravity 37, 085017
(2020) A Dolbeault-Hilbert complex for a variety with isolated singular points, Annals of K-Theory 4, p. 707-720

(2019) On noncollapsed almost Ricci-flat 4-manifolds, with Vitali Kapovitch, Amer. J. Math. 141, p. 737-755
(2018) Eigenvalue estimates and differential form Laplacians on Alexandrov spaces, Math. Annalen 371, p. 1737-1767
(2018) Collapsing in the Einstein flow, Annales Henri Poincare 19, p. 2245-2296
(2018) A Hilbert bundle description of differential K-theory, with Alexander Gorokhovsky, Adv. in Math. 328, p. 661-712
(2018) Backreaction in the future behavior of an expanding vacuum spacetime, Class. and Quantum Gravity 35, 035010 Corrigendum

(2017) Singular Ricci flows I, with Bruce Kleiner, Acta Math. 219, p. 65-134
(2017) An intrinsic parallel transport in Wasserstein space, Proc. of the AMS 145, p. 5329-5340
(2017) Note on asymptotically conical expanding Ricci solitons, with Patrick Wilson, Proc. of the AMS 145, p. 3525-3529
(2017) On tangent cones in Wasserstein space, Proc. of the AMS 145, p. 3127-3136
(2016) Ricci flow on quasiprojective manifolds II, with Zhou Zhang, J. of the Eur. Math. Soc. 18, p. 1813-1854

(2016) Ricci measure for some singular Riemannian metrics, Math. Annalen 365, p. 449-471
(2014) Geometrization of three-dimensional orbifolds via Ricci flow, with Bruce Kleiner, Asterisque 365, p. 101-177 Minor corrections
(2014) Locally collapsed 3-manifolds, with Bruce Kleiner, Asterisque 365, p. 7-99 Minor corrections
(2014) Collapsing with a lower bound on the curvature operator, Adv. in Math. 256, p. 291-317
(2014) Ricci flow on three-dimensional manifolds with symmetry, with Natasa Sesum, Comm. Math. Helv. 89, p. 1-32

(2013) The index of a transverse Dirac-type operator: the case of abelian Molino sheaf, with Alexander Gorokhovsky, J. Reine Angew. Math. (Crelle's Journal) 678, p. 125-162
(2012) Mean curvature flow in a Ricci flow background, Comm. Math. Phys. 313, p. 517-533
(2011) Ricci flow on quasiprojective manifolds, with Zhou Zhang, Duke Math. Journal 156, p. 87-123
(2010) Dimensional reduction and the long-time behavior of Ricci flow, Comm. Math. Helv. 85, p. 485-534
(2010) An index theorem in differential K-theory, with Dan Freed, Geometry and Topology 14, p. 903-966

(2009) Optimal transport and Perelman's reduced volume , Calc. Var. and Partial Differential Equations 36, p. 49-84
(2009) Ricci curvature for metric-measure spaces via optimal transport, with Cedric Villani, Annals of Math. 169, p. 903-991
(2008) Notes on Perelman's papers, with Bruce Kleiner, Geometry and Topology 12, p. 2587-2855
(2008) Some geometric calculations on Wasserstein space, Comm. Math. Phys. 277, p. 423-437
(2007) Optimal transport and Ricci curvature for metric-measure spaces, in Surveys in Differential Geometry, vol. XI, Metric and Comparison Geometry, eds. J. Cheeger and K. Grove, International Press, Somerville, MA, p. 229-257

(2007) Hamilton-Jacobi semigroup on length spaces and applications, with Cedric Villani, Journal de Math. Pures et Appliquees 88, p. 219-229
(2007) On the long-time behavior of type-III Ricci flow solutions, Math. Annalen 339, p. 627-666
(2007) The work of Grigory Perelman, Proc. of the ICM 2006, European Math. Soc. Publishing House, Vol. I, p. 66-77
(2007) Remark about scalar curvature and Riemannian submersions, Proc. of the AMS 135, p. 3375-3381
(2007) Weak curvature conditions and functional inequalities, with Cedric Villani, J. of Functional Analysis 245, p. 311-333

(2006) Local index theory over foliation groupoids, with Alexander Gorokhovsky, Adv. in Math. 204, p. 413-447
(2005) Limit sets as examples in noncommutative geometry, K-Theory 34, p. 283-326
(2003) Remark about the spectrum of the p-form Laplacian under a collapse with curvature bounded below, Proc. of the AMS 132, p. 911-918
(2003) Some geometric properties of the Bakry-Emery-Ricci tensor, Comm. Math. Helv. 78, p. 865-883
(2003) Local index theory over etale groupoids, with Alexander Gorokhovsky, J. Reine Angew. Math. (Crelle's Journal) 560, p. 151-198

(2003) Manifolds with quadratic curvature decay and fast volume growth, Math. Ann. 325, p. 525-541
(2002) Higher-degree analogs of the determinant line bundle, Comm. Math. Phys. 230, p. 41-69
(2002) Collapsing and the differential form Laplacian : the case of a smooth limit space, Duke Math. Journal 114, p. 267-306
(2002) Collapsing and Dirac-type operators, Geom. Ded. 91, p. 175-196 (special issue on Partial Differential Equations and their Applications to Geometry and Physics)
(2001) On the spectrum of a finite-volume negatively-curved manifold, Amer. J. of Math. 123, p. 185-205

(2001) The Dirac operator and conformal compactification, Internat. Math. Res. Notices 2001, No. 4, p. 171-178
(2000) On the homotopy invariance of higher signatures for manifolds with boundary, with Eric Leichtnam and Paolo Piazza, J. of Diff. Geom. 54, p. 561-633
(2000) Invariant currents on limit sets, Comm. Math. Helv. 75, p. 319-350
(2000) Manifolds with quadratic curvature decay and slow volume growth, with Zhongmin Shen, Ann. Scient. de l'Ec. Norm. Sup. (4) 33, p. 275-290
(2000) Signatures and higher signatures of $S^1$-quotients, Math. Annalen 316, p. 617-657 Addendum

(2000) Delocalized $L^2$-invariants, J. Funct. Anal. 169, p. 1-31. Erratum, J. Funct. Anal. 210, p. 258. See also the paper by Michael Puschnigg which makes the erratum irrelevant.
(2000) Secondary analytic indices, in Regulators in Analysis, Geometry and Number Theory, Birkhauser Prog. in Math. Series, vol. 171, eds. A. Reznikov and N. Schappacher, Birkhauser, Boston, p. 231-293
(2000) A-hat genus and collapsing, J. of Geom. Anal. 10, p. 529-543
(1999) Diffeomorphisms and noncommutative analytic torsion, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 141, no. 673, viii + 56 pp.
(1999) Deficiencies of lattice subgroups of Lie groups, Bull. London Math. Soc. 31, p. 191-195

(1999) Remark about heat diffusion on periodic spaces, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 127, p. 1243-1249
(1998) Eta and torsion, in Symetries Quantiques (Les Houches 1995), p. 947-955
(1997) Torus bundles and the group cohomology of GL(N,Z), with J.-M. Bismut, J. Diff. Geom. 47, p. 196-236
(1997) $L^2$ cohomology of geometrically infinite hyperbolic 3-manifolds, Geom. and Funct. Anal. 7, p. 81-119
(1996) The zero-in-the-spectrum question, Enseign. Math. 42, p. 341-376

(1995) $L^2$ topological invariants of 3-manifolds, with Wolfgang Lueck, Inv. Math. 120, p. 15-60
(1995) Flat vector bundles, direct images and higher real analytic torsion, with J.-M. Bismut, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 8, p. 291-363
(1994) Equivariant analytic torsion for group actions, J. Funct. Anal. 125, p. 438-451
(1994) R/Z index theory, Comm. Anal. Geom. 2, p. 279-311
(1992) Higher eta-invariants, K-Theory 6, p. 191-233

(1992) Superconnections and higher index theory, Geom. and Funct. Anal. 2, p. 421-454
(1992) Heat kernels on covering spaces, J. Diff. Geom. 35, 471-510
(1991) Analytic torsion for group actions, J. Diff. Geom. 34, p. 431-481
(1990) Particle models and noncommutative geometry, with Alain Connes, Nucl. Phys. B Proc. Suppl. 18B, p. 29-47
(1990) Torsion constraints in supergeometry, Comm. Math. Phys. 133, p. 563-615

(1988) Real anomalies, J. Math. Phys. 29, p. 1455-1464
(1986) Supersymmetric path integrals, Comm. Math. Phys. 108, p. 605-629
(1986) Renormalization group flow for general sigma models, Comm. Math. Phys. 107, p. 165-176
(1986) Bosonization in curved spacetime, Phys. Lett. B 173, p. 319-320
(1986) Eigenvalue bounds for the Dirac operator, Pac. J. Math. 125, p. 117-126

(1985) Degrees of freedom and quantization of anomalous gauge theories, with Doug Rajaraman, Phys. Lett. B 165, p. 321-326
(1985) Effective actions and large-N limits, Comm. Math. Phys. 100, p. 133-140
(1984) The eta-function and some new anomalies, Phys. Lett. B 145, p. 179-180
(1984) The Yang-Mills collective-coordinate potential, Comm. Math. Phys. 95, p. 289-300
(1984) Vacuum charge and the eta function, Comm. Math. Phys. 93, p. 533-558

Other

(2001) The geometry of supergravity torsion constraints, prepared for the 2001 Park City Mathematics Institute