A topological lower bound for the energy of a unit vector field on a closed Euclidean hypersurface

DOI10.4064/AP200203-14-5zbMath1468.57027arXiv1703.03263OpenAlexW3110739311MaRDI QIDQ4997499

Adriana V. Nicoli, Icaro Gonçalves, Fabiano Gustavo Braga Brito

Publication date: 29 June 2021

Published in: Annales Polonici Mathematici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03263

zbMATH Keywords

Gauss mapenergy of vector fieldsEuclidean hypersurfacesnormal degree

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25) Degree theory for nonlinear operators (47H11) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

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