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Remarks on the Riemannian metric of a minimal submanifold

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Geometry Symposium Utrecht 1980

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Chern, SS., Osserman, R. (1981). Remarks on the Riemannian metric of a minimal submanifold. In: Looijenga, E., Siersma, D., Takens, F. (eds) Geometry Symposium Utrecht 1980. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 894. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0096224

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