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Morse theory by perturbation methods with applications to harmonic maps. (English) Zbl 0509.58012


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58E05 Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel’man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces
58E20 Harmonic maps, etc.
53C60 Global differential geometry of Finsler spaces and generalizations (areal metrics)
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