scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1975654

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Authors Tôru Nakajima

Publication date 7 September 2003

Full work available at URL http://www.math.tohoku.ac.jp/tmj/PDFofTMP/tmp26.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet energyEuclidean spaceharmonic mapRiemannian manifoldsingular pointsphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45) Critical points of functions and mappings on manifolds (58K05)

Review text

This monograph is based on the author's doctoral thesis submitted to the Mathematical Institute of Tohoku University in 2002. The relation between singularities and stability of harmonic maps from domains in the 4-dimensional Euclidean space into 3-spheres is studied. In Chapter 1, several definitions and known results on harmonic maps, used throughout the monograph, are reviewed. The main theorem in the author's thesis and some corollaries derived from it are also presented. In Chapter 2, the author proves the energy identity for stationary harmonic maps and introduces the blow-up technique. In virtue of this technique, the proof of the main theorem is reduced to the study of smooth harmonic maps between 3-spheres. In Chapter 3, some relevant results on conformal geometry are presented and the energy of harmonic maps between spheres is analyzed. Theorems obtained in this chapter are used to obtain the lower bound of the Dirichlet energy of weakly harmonic maps satisfying some additional conditions. In Chapter 4, the main theorem is proved by applying the estimate of the Dirichlet energy and the stability condition. Also, the author makes several remarks and comments on some future problems.

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