Critical points and geometric properties of Green's functions on open surfaces

DOI10.1007/S10231-014-0402-XzbMATH Open1330.35091arXiv1304.1652OpenAlexW2060348532MaRDI QIDQ2350652FDOQ2350652

Authors: Alberto Enciso, Daniel Peralta-Salas 

Publication date: 25 June 2015

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

Abstract: We study the dynamics of the vector field on an open surface given by the gradient of a Green's function. This dynamical approach enables us to show that this field induces an invariant decomposition of the surface as the union of a disk and a 1-skeleton that encodes the topology of the surface. We analyze the structure of this 1-skeleton, thereby obtaining, in particular, a topological upper bound for the number of critical points a Green's function can have. Connections between the dynamical properties of the gradient field and the conformal structure of the surface are also discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.1652

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zbMATH Keywords

Green's functioncritical pointselliptic PDEgeometric properties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Critical points of functionals in context of PDEs (e.g., energy functionals) (35B38) Stability of topological dynamical systems (37B25) Green's functions for elliptic equations (35J08)

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