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Equivariant harmonic maps into spheres

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  • Angular Momentum
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  • Neumann Problem
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  • Compact Symmetric Space

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Uhlenbeck, K.K. (1982). Equivariant harmonic maps into spheres. 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/BFb0069763

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