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Partial regularity of stable p-harmonic maps into spheres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Min-Chun Hong
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Department of Mathematics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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In this paper we prove partial regularity for a weakly stable p-harmonic map from Ω into Sk when k > 2p – 1.

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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2007

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