Existence of infinitely many weakly harmonic maps from a domain in ℝn into S2 for non-constant boundary data

Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 97-121

  Pakzad, Mohammad Reza ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

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EID: 0037887736     PISSN: 09442669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00009925     Document Type: Article

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