GENERALIZED TWISTS AS ELASTIC ENERGY EXTREMALS ON ANNULI, QUATERNIONS AND LIFTING TWIST LOOPS TO THE SPINOR GROUPS

DOI10.1142/S0219530513500085zbMath1262.49004MaRDI QIDQ4916144

Ali Taheri, Mohammad Sadegh Shahrokhi-Dehkordi

Publication date: 19 April 2013

Published in: Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1142/s0219530513500085

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet energy; generalized twists; \textbf{SO}(\(n\)); \textbf{Spin}(\(n\)); elastic energy extremals; scaled geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

49J10: Existence theories for free problems in two or more independent variables

55M25: Degree, winding number

35J50: Variational methods for elliptic systems

35J92: Quasilinear elliptic equations with (p)-Laplacian

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