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Existence for VT-harmonic maps from compact manifolds with boundary

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We consider a kind of generalized harmonic maps, namely, the VT-harmonic maps. We prove an existence theorem for the Dirichlet problem of VT-harmonic maps from compact manifolds with boundary.

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11971358). The second author thanks the Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences for good working conditions when part of this work was carried out.

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Cao, X., Chen, Q. Existence for VT-harmonic maps from compact manifolds with boundary. Sci. China Math. 65, 2371–2378 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11425-020-1941-4

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