SOME GLOBAL MINIMIZERS OF A SYMPLECTIC DIRICHLET ENERGY

DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAQ013zbMATH Open1223.49052arXiv0804.4385OpenAlexW2025335408WikidataQ125924534 ScholiaQ125924534MaRDI QIDQ3092804FDOQ3092804

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Publication date: 11 October 2011

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

Abstract: The variational problem for the functional $F=frac12|ph{i}^{\ast }omega{|}_{L^2}^2$ is considered, where $phi:(M,g)o(N,omega)$ maps a Riemannian manifold to a symplectic manifold. This functional arises in theoretical physics as the strong coupling limit of the Faddeev-Hopf energy, and may be regarded as a symplectic analogue of the Dirichlet energy familiar from harmonic map theory. The Hopf fibration $pi:S^{3}o{S}^2$ is known to be a locally stable critical point of $F$. It is proved here that $pi$ in fact minimizes $F$ in its homotopy class and this result is extended to the case where $S^3$ is given the metric of the Berger's sphere. It is proved that if $ph{i}^{\ast }omega$ is coclosed then $phi$ is a critical point of $F$ and minimizes $F$ in its homotopy class. If $M$ is a compact Riemann surface, it is proved that every critical point of $F$ has $ph{i}^{\ast }omega$ coclosed. A family of holomorphic homogeneous projections into Hermitian symmetric spaces is constructed and it is proved that these too minimize $F$ in their homotopy class.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.4385

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Variational principles of physics (49S05)

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