Cartesian currents and variational problems for mappings into spheres

Giaquinta, M.; Modica, G.; Souček, J.

Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze, Série 4, Tome 16 (1989) no. 3, pp. 393-485.

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