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MiS Preprint
90/2014
Harmonic maps and singularities of period mappings
Jürgen Jost, Yi-Hu Yang and Kang Zuo
Abstract
We use simple methods from harmonic maps to investigate singularities of period mappings at infifinity. More precisely, we derive a harmonic map version of Schmid's nilpotent orbit theorem.