All harmonic 2-spheres in the unitary group, completely explicitly

DOI10.1007/S00209-009-0607-7MaRDI QIDQ604227zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maria João Ferreira, Bruno Ascenso Simões, J. C. Wood

Publication date 10 November 2010

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.1125

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic mapunitonGrassmannian model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43)

Abstract: We give a completely explicit formula for all harmonic maps of finite uniton number from a Riemann surface to the unitary group U(n) in any dimension, and so all harmonic maps from the 2-sphere, in terms of freely chosen meromorphic functions on the surface and their derivatives, using only combinations of projections and avoiding the usual dbar-problems or loop group factorizations. We interpret our constructions using Segal's Grassmannian model, giving an explicit factorization of the algebraic loop group, and showing how to obtain harmonic maps into a Grassmannian.

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