Natural pseudodistances between closed surfaces

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 331-353

  Donatini, Pietro ^a   Frosini, Patrizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Harmonic map; Measuring function; Natural pseudodistance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846646498     PISSN: 14359855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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