Conformal variational problems

DOI10.1007/BF02844662MaRDI QIDQ1202744zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Aristide Sanini

Publication date 3 February 1993

Published in Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02844662

zbMATH Keywords

critical energy energy functional tension field weakly conformal maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Review text

In an earlier paper [Rend. Mat. Appl., III. Ser. 3, 53-63 (1983; Zbl 0514.53037)] the author studied the conditions for a map \(f:(M^ m,g)\to (\overline{M},\overline{g})\) (\(M\) is compact) to have critical energy with respect to deformations of the metric on \(M\). On the other hand, \textit{K. Uhlenbeck} [Semin. on minimal submanifolds, Ann. Math. Stud. 103, 169-176 (1983; Zbl 0535.53050)] introduced the functional \(E^ m(f)\) generalizing the energy and depending only on the conformal class chosen on \(M\). Using similar methods to those in the first quoted paper the work under review studies the dependence of \(E^ m\) on the metric \(g\) and on the map \(f\). It is shown that \(E^ m\) is stationary with respect to any deformation of \(g\) iff \(f\) is weakly conformal. Further, \(E^ m\) is stationary with respect to deformations of \(f\) iff the \(m\)-tension field \(\tau^ m(f)\) (associated to \(E^ m(f)\) in the same way as the usual tension field \(\tau(f)\) to the energy \(E(f)\)) is identically zero. A special attention is paid in the last section to real valued maps which are critical for the functional \(E^ m\).

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