Quasiconformal extremals of smooth functionals and of the energy integral on Riemann surfaces (Q1118066)

The author considers the extremality criteria for the minimization problem of dilatation on homotopy classes of homeomorphisms with prescribed boundary values. The previous results are spread onto a wider class of functionals. The other question under consideration is concerned with the existence problem of the Dirichlet integral in homotopy classes of mappings. A new effect of ``spontaneous changing of resolution character'' is found for the equation of harmonic mappings of closed Riemann surfaces.