Group actions and deformations for harmonic maps

DOI10.2969/JMSJ/04540671MaRDI QIDQ1322333zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin A. Guest, Yoshihiro Ohnita

Publication date 16 August 1994

Published in Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9303037

zbMATH Keywords

connectednessdeformationsGrassmannian modelharmonic mapsLie group actionsloop groupspaces of harmonic 2-spheres

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Loop groups and related constructions, group-theoretic treatment (22E67) Group actions and symmetry properties (58D19) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Abstract: We obtain some new results on classical solutions of two dimensional Euclidean sigma models. From earlier work of Din-Zakrzewski, Glaser-Stora, and numerous differential geometers, one knows explicit solutions in the case of the $S^n$-model, the $C{P}^n$-model, and the $U(n)$-model. However, very little is known about the "moduli space" of solutions itself. In this paper we study the connected components of these spaces. In a subsequent paper (with M. Furuta and M. Kotani), we compute the fundamental group, in the case of the $S^n$-model.

Review text

In this paper the actions of certain infinite dimensional Lie groups on harmonic maps from a simply connected Riemann surface, especially a Riemann sphere, into a compact Lie group or a symmetric space are investigated. We show how the action of infinite dimensional Lie groups can be interpreted in terms of a Grassmannian model in loop group theory, and study their geometric nature. As an important application we can discuss deformations of harmonic maps under the group action from the viewpoint of Morse-Bott theory. Using this idea, we prove results on connectedness of spaces of harmonic 2-spheres in \(S^ n\), \(\mathbb{C} P^ n\) and \(U(n)\), and their generalizations.

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