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The role of conservation laws in the analysis of conformally invariant problems

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These lecture notes form the cornerstone between two areas of Mathematics: calculus of variations and conformal invariance theory.

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Rivière, T. (2012). The role of conservation laws in the analysis of conformally invariant problems. In: Mingione, G. (eds) Topics in Modern Regularity Theory. CRM Series, vol 13. Edizioni della Normale. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-7642-427-4_2

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