scholarly journals Harmonic maps with torsion

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volker Branding
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifolds ◽  
Critical Points ◽  
Mathematical Analysis ◽  
Harmonic Maps ◽  
Natural Extension ◽  
Energy Functional ◽  
Target Manifold

AbstractIn this article we introduce a natural extension of the well-studied equation for harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds by assuming that the target manifold is equipped with a connection that is metric but has non-vanishing torsion. Such connections have already been classified in the work of Cartan (1924). The maps under consideration do not arise as critical points of an energy functional leading to interesting mathematical challenges. We will perform a first mathematical analysis of these maps which we will call harmonic maps with torsion.

scholarly journals Biharmonic submanifolds in3-dimensional(κ,μ)-manifolds

2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (22) ◽  
pp. 3575-3586 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Arslan ◽  
R. Ezentas ◽  
C. Murathan ◽  
T. Sasahara
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifolds ◽  
Critical Points ◽  
Harmonic Maps ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Biharmonic Maps ◽  
Biharmonic Submanifolds ◽  
Invariant Surfaces ◽  
Legendre Curves ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient

Biharmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds are defined as critical points of the bienergy and generalized harmonic maps. In this paper, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for nonharmonic Legendre curves and anti-invariant surfaces of3-dimensional(κ,μ)-manifolds to be biharmonic.

Harmonic G-structures

2009 ◽  
Vol 146 (2) ◽  
pp. 435-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. GONZÁLEZ–DÁVILA ◽  
F. MARTÍN CABRERA
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Critical Points ◽  
Compact Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Harmonic Maps ◽  
Energy Functional ◽  
Second Variation ◽  
Hermitian Manifolds ◽  
Almost Hermitian Manifolds ◽  
Intrinsic Torsion ◽  
First And Second Variation

AbstractFor closed and connected subgroups G of SO(n), we study the energy functional on the space of G-structures of a (compact) Riemannian manifold (M, 〈⋅, ⋅〉), where G-structures are considered as sections of the quotient bundle (M)/G. We deduce the corresponding first and second variation formulae and the characterising conditions for critical points by means of tools closely related to the study of G-structures. In this direction, we show the rôle in the energy functional played by the intrinsic torsion of the G-structure. Moreover, we analyse the particular case G=U(n) for 2n-dimensional manifolds. This leads to the study of harmonic almost Hermitian manifolds and harmonic maps from M into (M)/U(n).

scholarly journals Some results on stable p-harmonic maps

1994 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leung-Fu Cheung ◽  
Pui-Fai Leung
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Critical Point ◽  
Harmonic Maps ◽  
Harmonic Map ◽  
Energy Functional ◽  
Complete Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Simply Connected

For each p ∈ [2, ∞)a p-harmonic map f:Mm→Nn is a critical point of the p-energy functionalwhere Mm is a compact and Nn a complete Riemannian manifold of dimensions m and n respectively. In a recent paper [3], Takeuchi has proved that for a certain class of simply-connected δ-pinched Nn and certain type of hypersurface Nn in ℝn+1, the only stable p-harmonic maps for any compact Mm are the constant maps. Our purpose in this note is to establish the following theorem which complements Takeuchi's results.

scholarly journals Regularity of the m-symphonic map

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Masashi Misawa ◽  
Nobumitsu Nakauchi
Keyword(s):  
Critical Points ◽  
Conformal Invariance ◽  
Hölder Continuity ◽  
Energy Functional ◽  
Higher Dimension ◽  
Holder Continuity ◽  
New Energy ◽  
Symphonic Map

AbstractWe introduce a new energy functional of conformal invariance and consider its critical points, named the m-symphonic map. We study a Hölder continuity of m-symphonic maps from domains of $$\mathbb {R}^m$$ R m into the spheres in the higher dimension $$m \ge 4$$ m ≥ 4 .

scholarly journals UNIQUENESS THEOREMS FOR HARMONIC MAPS INTO METRIC SPACES

2002 ◽  
Vol 04 (04) ◽  
pp. 725-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHIKAKO MESE
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifolds ◽  
Metric Space ◽  
Metric Spaces ◽  
Harmonic Maps ◽  
Uniqueness Theorems ◽  
Singular Spaces ◽  
Domain Space ◽  
Recent Developments

Recent developments extend much of the known theory of classical harmonic maps between smooth Riemannian manifolds to the case when the target is a metric space of curvature bounded from above. In particular, the existence and regularity theorems for harmonic maps into these singular spaces have been successfully generalized. Furthermore, the uniqueness of harmonic maps is known when the domain has a boundary (with a smallness of image condition if the target curvature is bounded from above by a positive number). In this paper, we will address the question of uniqueness when the domain space is without a boundary in two cases: one, when the curvature of the target is strictly negative and two, for a map between surfaces with nonpositive target curvature.

Harmonicity of vector fields on a class of Lorentzian solvable Lie groups

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ju Tan ◽  
Shaoqiang Deng
Keyword(s):  
Vector Field ◽  
Lie Groups ◽  
Lie Algebras ◽  
Critical Points ◽  
Vector Fields ◽  
Energy Functional ◽  
Smooth Vector ◽  
Solvable Lie Groups ◽  
Invariant Vector ◽  
Invariant Vector Fields

AbstractIn this paper, we consider a special class of solvable Lie groups such that for any x, y in their Lie algebras, [x, y] is a linear combination of x and y. We investigate the harmonicity properties of invariant vector fields of this kind of Lorentzian Lie groups. It is shown that any invariant unit time-like vector field is spatially harmonic. Moreover, we determine all vector fields which are critical points of the energy functional restricted to the space of smooth vector fields.

scholarly journals Distributions on Riemannian manifolds, which are harmonic maps

2003 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boo-Yong Choi ◽  
Jin-Whan Yim
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifolds ◽  
Harmonic Maps

scholarly journals Regularity of Weak Solution of Variational Problems Modeling the Cosserat Micropolar Elasticity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yimei Li ◽  
Changyou Wang
Keyword(s):  
Weak Solution ◽  
Harmonic Maps ◽  
Lagrange Equation ◽  
Variational Problems ◽  
Energy Functional ◽  
Geometrically Nonlinear ◽  
Micropolar Elasticity ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
The Poisson Equation ◽  
System Coupling

Abstract In this paper, we consider weak solutions of the Euler–Lagrange equation to a variational energy functional modeling the geometrically nonlinear Cosserat micropolar elasticity of continua in dimension three, which is a system coupling between the Poisson equation and the equation of $p$-harmonic maps ($2\le p\le 3$). We show that if a weak solution is stationary, then its singular set is discrete for $2<p<3$ and has zero one-dimensional Hausdorff measure for $p=2$. If, in addition, it is a stable-stationary weak solution, then it is regular everywhere when $p\in [2, \frac{32}{15}]$.

ON HARMONIC AND PSEUDOHARMONIC MAPS FROM PSEUDO-HERMITIAN MANIFOLDS

2017 ◽  
Vol 234 ◽  
pp. 170-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
TIAN CHONG ◽  
YUXIN DONG ◽  
YIBIN REN ◽  
GUILIN YANG
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifolds ◽  
Harmonic Maps ◽  
Kähler Manifolds ◽  
Kahler Manifolds ◽  
Rigidity Results ◽  
Hermitian Manifolds

In this paper, we give some rigidity results for both harmonic and pseudoharmonic maps from pseudo-Hermitian manifolds into Riemannian manifolds or Kähler manifolds. Some foliated results, pluriharmonicity and Siu–Sampson type results are established for both harmonic maps and pseudoharmonic maps.

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