New results on the classical problem of Plateau on the existence of many solutions

Séminaire Bourbaki : volume 1981/82, exposés 579-596, Astérisque no. 92-93 (1982), Talk no. 579, p. 1-20

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Böhme, Reinhold. New results on the classical problem of Plateau on the existence of many solutions, in Séminaire Bourbaki : volume 1981/82, exposés 579-596, Astérisque, no. 92-93 (1982), Talk no. 579, pp. 1-20. http://www.numdam.org/item/SB_1981-1982__24__1_0/

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