Regularity for n-harmonic maps

Journal of Geometric Analysis

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 91-112

  Mou, Libin ^a   Yang, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BRADLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Borderline growth; Compensation; Interior and boundary regularity; N harmonic maps; Removable singularities; Volume constraint; 1 theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 8744225639     PISSN: 10506926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02921568     Document Type: Article

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