Minimizing the energy of maps from a surface into a 2-sphere with prescribed degree and boundary values

DOI10.1007/BF02567598zbMath0808.58017OpenAlexW2026658899MaRDI QIDQ1328175

Ernst Christoph Kuwert

Publication date: 16 March 1995

Published in: Manuscripta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/155945

zbMATH Keywords

minimizer of the energyrelative degreeholomorphic map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Holomorphic mappings, (holomorphic) embeddings and related questions in several complex variables (32H02) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

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