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Book Information:

Authors: Joachim Krieger and Wilhelm Schlag
Title: Concentration compactness for critical wave maps
Additional book information: EMS Monographs in Modern Mathematics, European Mathematical Society (EMS), Z\"urich, 2012, vi+484 pp., ISBN 978-3-03719-106-4

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Terence Tao
    Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095-1555
    Email: tao@math.ucla.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 50 (2013), 655-662
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-2012-01395-2
    Published electronically: October 16, 2012
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2012 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.