Les applications conforme-harmoniques

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Publication date: 25 March 2012

Abstract: On a Riemannian surface, the energy of a map into a Riemannian manifold is a conformal invariant functional, and its critical points are the harmonic maps. Our main result is a generalization of this theorem when the starting manifold is even dimensional. We then build a conformal invariant functional for the maps between two Riemannian manifolds. Its critical points then called C--harmonic are the solutions of a nonlinear elliptic PDE of order

n

, which is conformal covariant with respect to the start manifold. For the trivial case of real or complex functions of

M

, we find again the GJMS operator, with a leading part power to the

n / 2

of the Laplacian. When

n

is odd, we prove that the constant term of the asymptotic expansion of the energy of an asymptotically harmonic map on an AHE manifold

(M^{n + 1}, g_{+})

is an absolute invariant of

g_{+}

.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43)

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