Subelliptic harmonic maps

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 350, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 4633-4649

  Jost, Jürgen ^a,c,d   Xu, Chao Jiang ^b,d  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

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EID: 22444455404     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9947-98-01992-8     Document Type: Article

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