Geometry of harmonic maps
The theory of harmonic maps is a very much alive research domain in todays mathematics. It grew out from several essential notions in differential geometry, such as: geodesics, minimal surfaces, harmonic functions, holomorphic maps between Kähler manifolds, etc. The theory of harmonic maps is closely related to the differential geometry of complex manifolds, the nonlinear field theory in theoretical physics, the theory of stochastic processes, the theory of liquid crystals in materials science, etc. The notion of harmonic map has been introduced in 1964 by J. Eells and J. H. Sampson by using a variational principle for the energy functional. During the past thirty years the theory has been developed extensively. Now, there are at least eight monographs dealing with this argument and two survey papers by J. Eells and L. Lemaire. The present book provides an excellent introduction to the theory of harmonic maps, being useful to research workers and graduate students in differential geometry, geometric analysis, differential equations and theoretical physics. The author presents the geometric aspects of harmonic maps and establishes the inter-relationship with other mathematical and physical topics. The author's own contributions to some topics presented in the book are described. The first chapter contains some introductory material. The author presents several equivalent definitions of harmonic maps and some interesting examples, obtaining various important properties and formulas. A Bochner type formula is obtained by using the Weitzenböck formula. Some basic properties of harmonic maps such as the maximum principle, unique continuation theorems, second variational formula and the stability of the harmonic maps are discussed. Next, in the second chapter, he obtains the conservation laws for harmonic maps and presents some applications to the monotonicity formula and Liouville type theorems by using the stress-energy tensor as well as further generalizations. In the third chapter there are given some uniqueness results for submanifolds with parallel mean curvature through the property of their Gauss maps to be harmonic. After obtaining the generalized maximum principle and some estimates for the image diameter, the author studies the properties of the Gauss images of a space-like hypersurface in a Minkowski space and of a space-like submanifold in a pseudo-Euclidean space. Then, some aspects related to harmonic maps in complex geometry are presented in the fourth chapter. Some applications of harmonic maps to the Frankel conjecture and to strong rigidity are given. The existence results for harmonic maps are discussed in the fifth chapter. The author is interested in finding the geometric conditions under which he can apply the partial regularity theorems of Schoen-Uhlenbeck and Giaquinta-Giusti. In this way, it is obtained a generalization of the Eells-Sampson existence theorem. In the last chapter the author makes a systematic study of the equivariant harmonic maps. After a short presentation of the Riemannian submersions and the equivariant harmonic maps, the author obtains the reduction theorems and equivariant variational formulas, considering the cases where the reduced harmonicity equations are a single ordinary differential equation, a system of ordinary differential equations or a scalar partial differential equation. Finally he solves several concrete problems, showing that the method is useful for finding nonminimal critical points of some geometric variational problems. In conclusion one can say that this is a good and useful book worth of finding its place in any mathematician's bookcase who is interested in the theory of harmonic maps.
- Geometry of harmonic maps and biharmonic maps
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2227447
- Geometry of \(F\)-harmonic maps
- Harmonic maps
- Harmonic maps
- Harmonic maps and morphisms
- Harmonic maps and their generalizations
- Harmonic maps and harmonic morphisms
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 67241
- On the geometry of harmonic morphisms
- On the evolution equation for magnetic geodesics
- Geodesic transformations and harmonic spaces
- Harmonic maps from Kähler manifolds
- Symplectic geometry of vector bundle maps of tangent bundles
- A vanishing result for the supersymmetric nonlinear sigma model in higher dimensions
- Blow-up and global existence for the porous medium equation with reaction on a class of Cartan-Hadamard manifolds
- Equivariant biharmonic maps between manifolds with metrics of signature
- Convex function on pseudo-Grassmann manifold and its applications for Bernstein-type theorem
- The first \(L^2\)-Betti number of certain homogeneous spaces, including classifying spaces for variations of Hodge structures
- Biharmonic constant mean curvature surfaces in Killing submersions
- A spherical Bernstein theorem for minimal submanifolds of higher codimension
- Stratification for the singular set of approximate harmonic maps
- A general approach to equivariant biharmonic maps
- Graphical mean curvature flow
- On the \(p\)-harmonic and \(p\)-biharmonic maps
- Singularities of mean curvature flow
- Harmonic maps with torsion
- Rigidity of the Hopf fibration
- Quantitative regularity for \(p\)-minimizing maps through a Reifenberg theorem
- Harmonic sections of vector bundles with spherically symmetric metrics
- Vector fields which are biharmonic maps
- Sobolev-type inequalities on Cartan-Hadamard manifolds and applications to some nonlinear diffusion equations
- Plurisuperharmonicity of reciprocal energy function on Teichmüller space and Weil-Petersson metric
- Polyhedra as domains of harmonic maps
- Dirichlet boundary values on Euclidean balls with infinitely many solutions for the minimal surface system
- On \textit{VT}-harmonic maps
- The Poisson equation on manifolds with positive essential spectrum
- Integral estimates for energy densities of non-constant harmonic maps
- Rotationally symmetric biharmonic maps between models
- Curvature estimates for submanifolds with prescribed Gauss image and mean curvature
- Some remarks on energy inequalities for harmonic maps with potential
- Quaternionic maps between quaternionic Kähler manifolds
- A maximum principle for generalizations of harmonic maps in Hermitian, affine, Weyl, and Finsler geometry
- Convergence of harmonic maps
- Stability of natural energy functionals at Riemannian subimmersions
- The Poisson equation on Riemannian manifolds with weighted Poincaré inequality at infinity
- Some results on harmonic metrics
- Self-expanders to the mean curvature flow based on the generalized Lawson-Osserman cone
- Some classes of harmonic functions on vector bundles
- A note on stochastic calculus in vector bundles
- Killing vector fields and harmonic superfield theories
- The heat flow of V-harmonic maps from complete manifolds into regular balls
- Thirty-nine years of harmonic maps
- Harmonic Maps and Minimal Immersions with Symmetries (AM-130)
- On the geometry of harmonic morphisms
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- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3879656 (Why is no real title available?)
- Constant mean curvature hypersurfaces with constant angle in semi-Riemannian space forms
- Dirac-harmonic maps from index theory
- Harmonic mappings
- Bloch bundles, Marzari-Vanderbilt functional and maximally localized Wannier functions
- RIEMANNIAN GEOMETRY OF HARTOGS DOMAINS
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3923712 (Why is no real title available?)
- ОБОБЩЕННЫЕ ГАРМОНИЧЕСКИЕ СЕКУЩИЕ В РАССЛОЕННОМ РИМАНОВОМ ПРОСТРАНСТВЕ
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4104030 (Why is no real title available?)
- Variation formulas for transversally harmonic and biharmonic maps
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 53650 (Why is no real title available?)
- The geometry of closed conformal vector fields on Riemannian spaces
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1225916 (Why is no real title available?)
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- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 499495 (Why is no real title available?)
- Geometry of Spaces of Vector-Valued Harmonic Functions
- Vanishing theorems for L2 -cohomology groups
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1761921 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1775465 (Why is no real title available?)
- A Schwarz lemma for V-harmonic maps and their applications
- Relative energy gap for harmonic maps of Riemann surfaces into real analytic Riemannian manifolds
- Some results on stable f-harmonic maps
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2097535 (Why is no real title available?)
- Riemannian polyhedra and Liouville-type theorems for harmonic maps
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 795021 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 798164 (Why is no real title available?)
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- Curvature estimates for minimal hypersurfaces via generalized longitude functions
- Harmonic maps and morphisms
- Totally geodesic maps into manifolds with no focal points
- On the generalized of p-harmonic and f-harmonic maps
- On the Generalized of p-harmonic Maps
- Harmonic maps and their generalizations
- Harmonic maps and torse-forming vector fields
- Geometry of generalized F-harmonic maps
- \(V\)-harmonic morphisms between Riemannian manifolds
- Stability and constant boundary-value problems of \(f\)-harmonic maps with potential
- Unique continuation theorems for biharmonic maps
- A monotonicity formula and a Liouville type theorem of V-harmonic maps
- Some results on harmonic and bi-harmonic maps
- SOME REMARKS ON TRANSVERSALLY HARMONIC MAPS
- The analysis of harmonic maps and their heat flows.
- Mean curvature flow with bounded Gauss image
- Unique continuation properties for polyharmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds
- Some aspects of the global geometry of entire space-like submanifolds
- Harmonic maps with potential from complete manifolds
- Static theory for planar ferromagnets and antiferromagnets
- New types of metrics deformations and applications to p-biharmonic maps
- p-biharmonic hypersurfaces in Einstein space and conformally flat space
- A multiplicity estimate for the Jacobi operator of a nonflat Yang-Mills field over \(\mathbb{S}^m\)
- Triharmonic hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature in pseudo-Riemannian space forms
- The geometry of \(\Phi_{( 3 )}\)-harmonic maps
- Some functional properties on Cartan-Hadamard manifolds of very negative curvature
- Morse index of free boundary disk in pseudoconvex domain
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