Biharmonic maps into compact Lie groups and integrable systems
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Biharmonic maps into compact Lie groups and integrable systems
zbMATH Open document ID: 1291.58007
author: Hajime Urakawa
published in: Hokkaido Mathematical Journal
publication date: 2014-04-11T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.0692
full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.hokmj/1392906095
review text: The article studies biharmonic maps from compact Riemann manifolds to compact Lie groups and their relation to integrable systems. More precisely, let \((M,g)\) be a compact Riemannian manifold and \((G,h)\) be a compact Lie group with bi-invariant Riemannian metric \(h\). For a map \(\psi:(M,g)\to(G,h)\) the bienergy functional is given by \[ E_2(\psi):=\frac{1}{2}\int_M|\tau(\psi)|^2dv_g, \] where \(\tau\) is the tension field of the map \(\psi\) and critical points of \(E_2\) are called biharmonic maps. After recalling the necessary general material on harmonic maps and biharmonic maps, it is shown that \(\psi\) being biharmonic is equivalent to \[ \delta d\delta\alpha+\text{Trace}_g([\alpha,d\delta\alpha])=0, \] where \(\alpha\) denotes the pullback of the Maurer-Cartan form of \(G\). Using this formula, an existence result for real analytic biharmonic curves into a compact Lie group \((G,h)\) is presented and several examples of such curves are discussed. Moreover, an existence result for biharmonic maps of an open domain of \(\mathbb{R}^2\) with a Riemannian metric conformal to the standard Euclidean metric into \((G,h)\) is established.
reviewed by: Volker Branding
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58E20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53C42
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 22E30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 58J05
zbMATH DE Number: 6283194
zbMATH Keywords: harmonic maps
zbMATH Keywords: biharmonic maps
zbMATH Keywords: compact Lie groups
zbMATH Keywords: integrable systems
zbMATH Keywords: Maurer-Cartan form
zbMATH Keywords: biharmonic curves
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W2963674111
Wikidata QID: Q115237695
arXiv ID: 0910.0692
DOI: 10.14492/HOKMJ/1392906095
description: scientific article