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The heat equation and harmonic maps of complete manifolds

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Research supported by an NSF grant and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.

Research partially supported by the Earmarked Grant for Research, Hong Kong.

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Li, P., Tam, Lf. The heat equation and harmonic maps of complete manifolds. Invent Math 105, 1–46 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01232256

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