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Brezis, H. (1993). New energies for harmonic maps and liquid crystals. In: Komatsu, H. (eds) Functional Analysis and Related Topics, 1991. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1540. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0085471
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