Abstract
On our way towards a proof of the claim in the headline we are going to make use of Dirichlet’s energy. Dirichlet asserted the following well known principle: In order to solve the “harmonie” equation
it suffices to minimize the “energy”
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Tromba, A.J. (1992). T(M) is a Cell. In: Teichmüller Theory in Riemannian Geometry. Lectures in Mathematics ETH Zürich. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8613-0_4
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