On existence of harmonic maps from a surface to the space of its normal bundle (Q1323449)

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On existence of harmonic maps from a surface to the space of its normal bundle
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    On existence of harmonic maps from a surface to the space of its normal bundle (English)
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    14 July 1994
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    It is shown that the image under a heat flow of a zero section of some two-dimensional vector bundle over a surface does not go to infinity if the Euler characteristic of this bundle is not equal zero and a total space of a bundle has a metric of nonpositive curvature.
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    harmonic maps
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    heat flow
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    zero section
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