The biharmonic homotopy problem for unit vector fields on 2-tori

DOI10.1007/S10231-019-00835-YMaRDI QIDQ2332908zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Eric Loubeau, Michael Markellos

Publication date 5 November 2019

Published in Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. Serie Quarta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.11169

zbMATH Keywords

biharmonic unit vector fields2-torusbienergy functionalbiharmonic unit sections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30)

Abstract: The bienergy of smooth maps between Riemannian manifolds, when restricted to unit vector fields, yields two different variational problems depending on whether one takes the full functional or just the vertical contribution. Their critical points, called biharmonic unit vector fields and biharmonic unit sections, form different sets. Working with surfaces, we first obtain general characterizations of biharmonic unit vector fields and biharmonic unit sections under conformal change of the metric. In the case of a 2-dimensional torus, this leads to a proof that biharmonic unit sections are always harmonic and a general existence theorem, in each homotopy class, for biharmonic unit vector fields.

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