Wave maps into the sphere

Authors

  • Carlos Kenig Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33044/revuma.3159

Abstract

In this note we discuss some geometric analogs of the classical harmonic functions on $\mathbb{R}^n$ and their associated evolutions.

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2022-07-20