ON P-HARMONIC MAPS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS TO GEOMETRY, TOPOLOGY AND ANALYSIS

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SHIHSHU WALTER WEI
Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma, 601 Elm Avenue, Room 423, Norman, Oklahoma 73019-0315. U. S. A.

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Some investigations on p-harmonic maps and their applications to geometry, topology and analysis.





 




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WEI, S. W. (1997). ON P-HARMONIC MAPS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS TO GEOMETRY, TOPOLOGY AND ANALYSIS. Tamkang Journal of Mathematics, 28(2), 145–167. https://doi.org/10.5556/j.tkjm.28.1997.4328
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