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Twistor methods for harmonic maps

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Burstall, F.E. (1987). Twistor methods for harmonic maps. In: Hansen, V.L. (eds) Differential Geometry. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1263. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0078610

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