Towards the Willmore conjecture

Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 361-393

  Topping, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0013248813     PISSN: 09442669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005260000042     Document Type: Article

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