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In the last decades there has been a growing interest in the general theory of variational problems for vector valued maps and in particular in geometric variational problems.
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Giaquinta, M. (1994). Analytic and Geometric Aspects of Variational Problems for Vector Valued Mappings. In: Joseph, A., Mignot, F., Murat, F., Prum, B., Rentschler, R. (eds) First European Congress of Mathematics Paris, July 6–10, 1992. Progress in Mathematics, vol 120. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9112-7_3
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