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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

The Bulletin publishes expository articles on contemporary mathematical research, written in a way that gives insight to mathematicians who may not be experts in the particular topic. The Bulletin also publishes reviews of selected books in mathematics and short articles in the Mathematical Perspectives section, both by invitation only.

ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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The second variation for variational problems in canonical form
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 71 (1965), 145-148
References
  • James Eells Jr. and J. H. Sampson, Harmonic mappings of Riemannian manifolds, Amer. J. Math. 86 (1964), 109–160. MR 164306, DOI 10.2307/2373037
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Additional Information
  • Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 71 (1965), 145-148
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1965-11263-0
  • MathSciNet review: 0172216