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Chapter 10 Harmonic Maps from Riemann Surfaces

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In this chapter, harmonic maps from Riemann surfaces are discussed. We encounter here the phenomenon of conformal invariance which distinguishes the two-dimensional case from the higher dimensional one.

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Jost, J. (2017). Chapter 10 Harmonic Maps from Riemann Surfaces. In: Riemannian Geometry and Geometric Analysis. Universitext. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61860-9_11

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