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Bianchi–Bäcklund transforms and dressing actions, revisited

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We characterize Bianchi–Bäcklund transformations of surfaces of positive constant Gauss curvature in terms of dressing actions of the simplest type on the space of harmonic maps.

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Pacheco, R. Bianchi–Bäcklund transforms and dressing actions, revisited. Geom Dedicata 146, 85–99 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-009-9427-5

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