Solenoidal unit vector fields with minimum energy

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Authors Marcos Salvai, Fabiano G. B. Brito

Publication date 18 February 2005

Published in Osaka Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Riemannian manifoldminimal energysolenoidal vector fieldtotal bending

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43)

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