Spherical twists, SO(n) and the lifting of their twist paths to Spin(n) in low dimensions

DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAR007MaRDI QIDQ2907045zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ali Taheri

Publication date 5 September 2012

Published in The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/qmath/har007

zbMATH Keywords

spherical twistsDirichlet energy functional\(\mathbf{SO}(n)\)\(\mathbf{Spin}(n)\)generalized annuluslifting of twist paths

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Regularity of solutions in optimal control (49N60) Existence theories for optimal control problems involving partial differential equations (49J20) Optimality conditions for solutions belonging to restricted classes (Lipschitz controls, bang-bang controls, etc.) (49K30)

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