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A conservation law for harmonic maps

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  • Riemannian Manifold
  • Riemann Surface
  • Fundamental Form
  • Isometric Immersion
  • Riemannian Metrics

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Baird, P., Eells, J. (1981). A conservation law for harmonic maps. In: Looijenga, E., Siersma, D., Takens, F. (eds) Geometry Symposium Utrecht 1980. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 894. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0096222

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