Twistorial construction of harmonic maps of surfaces into four-manifolds

Eells, J.; Salamon, S.

Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze, Série 4, Tome 12 (1985) no. 4, pp. 589-640.

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