Harmonic mapping of spheres

This thesis is addressed to the following fundamental problem: given a homotopy class of maps between compact Riemannian manifolds N and M, is there a harmonic representative of that class? Eells and Sampson have given a general existence theorem for the case that M has no positive sectional curvatu...

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Main Author: Smith, Roland Theodore
Published: University of Warwick 1972
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.473270