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a gauss-bonnet theorem, chern classes and an adjunction formula

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Acknowledgement<br />

I am very grateful to my scientific advisors Askold Khov<strong>an</strong>skii <strong><strong>an</strong>d</strong> Mikhail Kapr<strong>an</strong>ov<br />

for m<strong>an</strong>y useful discussions. I am also grateful to the external examiner Alex<strong><strong>an</strong>d</strong>er<br />

Braverm<strong>an</strong> for reading my thesis <strong><strong>an</strong>d</strong> writing the report. I appreciate the discussions<br />

with Kiumars Kaveh on the topics of my thesis.<br />

I would like to th<strong>an</strong>k the graduate secretary Ida Bulat for her const<strong>an</strong>t help <strong><strong>an</strong>d</strong><br />

the University of Toronto for fin<strong>an</strong>cial support during my PhD studies.<br />

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