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LargeH-surfaces via the mountain-pass-lemma

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Supported by the Sonderforschungsbereich 72 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschafl and the Forschungsinstitut für Mathematik of the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich

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Struwe, M. LargeH-surfaces via the mountain-pass-lemma. Math. Ann. 270, 441–459 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01473439

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