Homotopy types for tamely approximable Sobolev maps between manifolds

DOI10.1007/BF01190824zbMath0884.58030MaRDI QIDQ1917676

Giandomenico Orlandi, Sisto Baldo

Publication date: 15 April 1998

Published in: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Sobolev spaceshomotopy typetame approximability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Manifolds of mappings (58D15) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15)

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