The Dirichlet integral for mappings between manifolds: Cartesian currents and homology
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instance of: scholarly article
title: The Dirichlet integral for mappings between manifolds: Cartesian currents and homology
zbMATH Open document ID: 0762.49018
DOI: 10.1007/BF01934329
published in: Mathematische Annalen
publication date: 1993-01-12T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/165005
review text: The paper deals with the Dirichlet integral for maps between two Riemannian manifolds \(X\) and \(Y\) and develops a kind of homological theory for the Dirichlet integral. Identifying maps with graphs, i.e. currents, first, limits of smooth graphs with equiconnected Dirichlet integrals are studied. This leads to define a suitable subclass of Cartesian currents. The structure of such currents then fully discussed in the case \(\dim X=2,3\) and \(H_ 2(Y,\mathbb{Z})\) is non-empty and torsionless, in particular it is proved that concentrations of energy defined on the cycles in \(H_ 2(Y,\mathbb{Z})\) of type \(S^ 2\) and may occur only on one-dimensional rectifiable sets (if \(\dim X=3)\). The Dirichlet integral is then extended to such currents and explicitely computed. Finally, variational problems for maps with prescribed two-homology maps, or with prescribed singularities are discussed.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 49Q20
zbMATH DE Number: 86191
zbMATH Keywords: homology
zbMATH Keywords: Dirichlet integral
zbMATH Keywords: Cartesian currents
zbMATH Keywords: variational problems
author: Mariano Giaquinta
author: Giuseppe Modica
author: Jiří Souček
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