A survey of some new results in ferromagnetic thin films

Ignat, Radu

Séminaire Équations aux dérivées partielles (Polytechnique) dit aussi "Séminaire Goulaouic-Schwartz" (2007-2008), Exposé no. 6, 19 p.

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