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Harmonic curvature for gravitational and Yang-Mills fields

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Bourguignon, JP. (1982). Harmonic curvature for gravitational and Yang-Mills fields. In: Knill, R.J., Kalka, M., Sealey, H.C.J. (eds) Harmonic Maps. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 949. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0069754

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