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In [17] the Eells-Sampson method for constructing harmonic maps between manifolds was extended to maps from a surface to an arbitrary compact manifold. We review the results in [17] and present several applications: First a new proof of the Sacks-Uhlenbeck results is given. Then we study minimal surfaces and surfaces of constant mean curvature with free boundaries on a supporting surface in ℝ3.
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Struwe, M. (1988). Heat-flow methods for harmonic maps of surfaces and applications to free boundary problems. In: Cardoso, F., de Figueiredo, D.G., Iório, R., Lopes, O. (eds) Partial Differential Equations. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1324. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0100801
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