Stability and singularities of harmonic maps into 3-spheres

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1427-1438

  Nakajima, Tôru ^a,b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Degree; Harmonic map; Isolated singular points; Stability

Indexed keywords

MAPS; SET THEORY; THEOREM PROVING;

ISOLATED SINGULAR POINTS;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 0042563237     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0362-546X(03)00195-0     Document Type: Article

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