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A new family of analytically solvable quantum geometric models is proposed. The structure of the energy spectra as well as the form of the corresponding eigenfunctions are presented pointing out their main specific properties.

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We show that in all homotopy classes of mappings from complex projective space to Riemannian manifolds, the infimum of the energy is proportional to the infimal area in the homotopy class of mappings of the 2-sphere which represents the…

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