Conformally Invariant Variational Problems

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Publication date: 11 June 2012

Abstract: Conformal invariance plays a significant role in many areas of Physics, such as conformal field theory, renormalization theory, turbulence, general relativity. Naturally, it also plays an important role in geometry: theory of Riemannian surfaces, Weyl tensors,

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-curvature, Yang-Mills fields, etc... We shall be concerned with the study of conformal invariance in analysis. More precisely, we will focus on the study of nonlinear PDEs arising from conformally invariant two dimensional variational problems (e.g. harmonic maps, prescribed mean curvature surfaces, Willmore and Constrained conformal surfaces, isothermic surfaces). The present manuscript are lecture notes of courses given by the author at several places including UBC Vancouver, SNS Pisa, IHP Paris, ICTP Trieste.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for elliptic systems (35J50) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20) Variational methods for higher-order elliptic equations (35J35) Higher-order elliptic systems (35J48) PDEs on manifolds (35R01) Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Second-order elliptic equations (35J15) Variational principles in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E30) Extremal problems for conformal and quasiconformal mappings, variational methods (30C70)

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