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Existence of minimizing Willmore Klein bottles in Euclidean four-space

Patrick Breuning, Jonas Hirsch and Elena Mäder-Baumdicker

Geometry & Topology 21 (2017) 2485–2526

DOI: 10.2140/gt.2017.21.2485

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