Vanishing theorems on Riemannian manifolds, and geometric applications

Journal of Functional Analysis

Volumn 229, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 424-461

  Pigola, Stefano ^a   Rigoli, Marco ^b   Setti, Alberto G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Harmonic maps; Isolation results; Submanifolds; Vanishing and Liouville theorems

Indexed keywords

EID: 28044433014     PISSN: 00221236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfa.2005.05.007     Document Type: Article

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