Orbifold Riemann surfaces and the Yang-Mills-Higgs equations

Nasatyr, Ben; Steer, Brian

Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze, Série 4, Tome 22 (1995) no. 4, pp. 595-643.

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