Sacks, Jonathan; Uhlenbeck, K. The existence of minimal immersions of 2-spheres. (English) Zbl 0462.58014 Ann. Math. (2) 113, 1-24 (1981). Page: −5 −4 −3 −2 −1 ±0 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 Show Scanned Page Cited in 34 ReviewsCited in 374 Documents MSC: 58E12 Variational problems concerning minimal surfaces (problems in two independent variables) 58E20 Harmonic maps, etc. 53C42 Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) Keywords:existence theory for harmonic maps of orientable surfaces into Riemannian manifolds; existence theory for a perturbed variational problem; minimal 2-spheres in compact Riemannian manifolds PDF BibTeX XML Cite \textit{J. Sacks} and \textit{K. Uhlenbeck}, Ann. Math. (2) 113, 1--24 (1981; Zbl 0462.58014) Full Text: DOI Link