The Yang-Mills flow near the boundary of Teichmüller space

Mathematische Annalen

Volumn 318, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-42

  Daskalopoulos, Georgios D ^a   Wentworth, Richard A ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0034412892     PISSN: 00255831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002080000098     Document Type: Article

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