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Harmonic and Projective Diffeomorphisms

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This article is devoted to a review of the results of the local and global geometries of harmonic and projective diffeomorphisms of Riemannian manifolds.

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    S. E. Stepanov & I. G. Shandra

  2. Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

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Translated from Itogi Nauki i Tekhniki, Seriya Sovremennaya Matematika i Ee Prilozheniya. Tematicheskie Obzory. Vol. 127, Geometry, 2014.

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Stepanov, S.E., Shandra, I.G. & Mikeš, J. Harmonic and Projective Diffeomorphisms. J Math Sci 207, 658–668 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-015-2388-3

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