On Polyharmonic Maps Into Spheres in the Critical Dimension

Goldstein, Paweł; Strzelecki, Paweł; Zatorska-Goldstein, Anna

Annales de l'I.H.P. Analyse non linéaire, Tome 26 (2009) no. 4, pp. 1387-1405.

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