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Partial regularity for biharmonic maps, revisited

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Extending our previous results with Tristan Rivière for harmonic maps, we show how partial regularity for stationary biharmonic maps into arbitrary targets can be naturally obtained via gauge theory in any dimensions m ≥ 4.

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Struwe, M. Partial regularity for biharmonic maps, revisited. Calc. Var. 33, 249–262 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-008-0175-4

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