Energy estimates and Liouville theorems for harmonic maps

International Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 413-448

  Rigoli, Marco ^a   Setti, Alberto G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Energy estimates; Harmonic maps; Liouville theorems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034349724     PISSN: 0129167X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129167X00000211     Document Type: Article

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