Stable blow up dynamics for the critical co-rotational wave maps and equivariant Yang-Mills problems

Publications Mathematiques de l'Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-122

  Raphaël, Pierre ^a   Rodnianski, Igor ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE MATHÉMATIQUES DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84855435413     PISSN: 00738301     EISSN: 16181913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10240-011-0037-z     Document Type: Article

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