Extrema of curvature functionals on the space of metrics on 3-manifolds

Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 199-269

  Anderson, Michael T ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000035404     PISSN: 09442669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005260050066     Document Type: Article

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