Abstract
In this paper we show that Novikov type inequalities for closed 1-forms hold with the von Neumann Betti numbers replacing the Novikov numbers. As a consequence we obtain a vanishing theorem for L2 cohomology. We also prove that von Neumann Betti numbers coincide with the Novikov numbers for free abelian coverings.
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