Geometry of Harmonic Maps

1996
ISBN: 978-0-8176-3820-7
Verlag: Birkhäuser Boston

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 246 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1200 g

Reihe: Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications

Harmonic maps are solutions to a natural geometrical variational prob­ lem. This notion grew out of essential notions in differential geometry, such as geodesics, minimal surfaces and harmonic functions. Harmonic maps are also closely related to holomorphic maps in several complex variables, to the theory of stochastic processes, to nonlinear field theory in theoretical physics, and to the theory of liquid crystals in materials science. During the past thirty years this subject has been developed extensively. The monograph is by no means intended to give a complete description of the theory of harmonic maps. For example, the book excludes a large part of the theory of harmonic maps from 2-dimensional domains, where the methods are quite different from those discussed here. The first chapter consists of introductory material. Several equivalent definitions of harmonic maps are described, and interesting examples are presented. Various important properties and formulas are derived. Among them are Bochner-type formula for the energy density and the second varia­ tional formula. This chapter serves not only as a basis for the later chapters, but also as a brief introduction to the theory. Chapter 2 is devoted to the conservation law of harmonic maps. Em­ phasis is placed on applications of conservation law to the mono tonicity formula and Liouville-type theorems.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Xin, Yuanlong

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Elementare Stochastik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Geometrie Nicht-Euklidische Geometrie
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematische Analysis Funktionentheorie, Komplexe Analysis
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematische Analysis Differentialrechnungen und -gleichungen
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Mechanik Klassische Mechanik, Newtonsche Mechanik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Stochastische Prozesse
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Geometrie Differentialgeometrie
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Mathematische Statistik
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Werkstoffprüfung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Introduction.- 1.1 Vector Bundles.- 1.2 Harmonic Maps.- 1.3 A Bochner Type Formula.- 1.4 Basic Properties of Harmonic Maps.- II. Conservation Law.- 2.1 Stress-Energy Tensor and Conservation Law.- 2.2 Monotonicity Formula.- 2.3 Applications of Conservation Law to Liouville type Theorems.- 2.4 Further Generalizations.- III. Harmonic Maps and Gauss Maps.- 3.1 Generalized Gauss Maps.- 3.2 Cone-like Harmonic Maps.- 3.3 Generalized Maximum Principle.- 3.4 Estimates of Image Diameter and its Applications.- 3.5 Gauss Image of a Space-Like Hypersurface in Minkowski Space.- 3.6 Gauss Image of a Space-Like Submanifold in Pseudo-Euclidean Space.- IV. Harmonic Maps and Holomorphic Maps.- 4.1 Partial Energies.- 4.2 Harmonicity of Holomorphic Maps.- 4.3 Holomorphicity of Harmonic Maps.- V. Existence, Nonexistence and Regularity.- 5.1 Direct Method of the Calculus of Variations.- 5.2 Regularity Theorems.- 5.3 Nonexistence and Existence.- 5.4 Regularity Results of Harmonic Maps into Positively Curved Manifolds.- VI. Equivariant Harmonic Maps.- 6.1 Riemannian Submersions and Equivariant Harmonic Maps.- 6.2 Reduction Theorems.- 6.3 Equivariant Variational Formulas.- 6.4 On Harmonic Representatives of ?m(Sm).- 6.5 Harmonic Maps via Isoparametric Maps.- 6.6 Harmonic Maps of Projective Spaces.- 6.7 Equivariant Boundary Value Problems.- References.