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A twistor description of harmonic maps of a 2-sphere into a Grassmannian

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Burstall, F.E. A twistor description of harmonic maps of a 2-sphere into a Grassmannian. Math. Ann. 274, 61–74 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01458017

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