Discrete pluriharmonic functions as solutions of linear pluri-Lagrangian systems

DOI10.1007/S00220-014-2240-5zbMATH Open1348.37098arXiv1403.2876OpenAlexW3105369713MaRDI QIDQ2018289FDOQ2018289

Authors: Alexander I. Bobenko, Yuri B. Suris 

Publication date: 14 April 2015

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Pluri-Lagrangian systems are variational systems with the multi-dimensional consistency property. This notion has its roots in the theory of pluriharmonic functions, in the Z-invariant models of statistical mechanics, in the theory of variational symmetries going back to Noether and in the theory of discrete integrable systems. A $d$-dimensional pluri-Lagrangian problem can be described as follows: given a $d$-form $L$ on an $m$-dimensional space, $m>d$, whose coefficients depend on a function $u$ of $m$ independent variables (called field), find those fields $u$ which deliver critical points to the action functionals $S_{S}igma=in{t}_{S}igmaL$ for any $d$-dimensional manifold $Sigma$ in the $m$-dimensional space. We investigate discrete 2-dimensional linear pluri-Lagrangian systems, i.e. those with quadratic Lagrangians $L$. The action is a discrete analogue of the Dirichlet energy, and solutions are called discrete pluriharmonic functions. We classify linear pluri-Lagrangian systems with Lagrangians depending on diagonals. They are described by generalizations of the star-triangle map. Examples of more general quadratic Lagrangians are also considered.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.2876

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zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet energyconsistency as integrabilitypluri-Lagrangian structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic, subharmonic, superharmonic functions on other spaces (31C05) Plurisubharmonic functions and generalizations (32U05) Discrete version of topics in analysis (39A12) Discrete potential theory (31C20) Relations of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamical systems with algebraic geometry, complex analysis, and special functions (37K20) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30)

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