On the nonexistence of finite time bubble trees in symmetric harmonic map heat flows from the disk to the 2-sphere

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 188-201

  van der Hout, Rein ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blow up; Bubble tree; Harmonic map; Heat flow; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037673619     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0396(03)00043-3     Document Type: Article

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