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Minimal surfaces of finite index in manifolds of positive scalar curvature

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  1. School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, 127 Vincent Hall, 206 Church Street S.E., 55455, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Robert Gulliver

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Gulliver, R. (1988). Minimal surfaces of finite index in manifolds of positive scalar curvature. In: Hildebrandt, S., Kinderlehrer, D., Miranda, M. (eds) Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1340. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0082890

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