Variational problems for riemannian functionals and arithmetic groups
Nabutovsky, Alexander ; Weinberger, Shmuel
Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS, Tome 92 (2000), p. 5-62 / Harvested from Numdam
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Nabutovsky, Alexander; Weinberger, Shmuel. Variational problems for riemannian functionals and arithmetic groups. Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS, Tome 92 (2000) pp. 5-62. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/PMIHES_2000__92__5_0/

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