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).

SOME RESULTS ON HARMONIC MAPS FOR FINSLER MANIFOLDS

2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (09) ◽  
pp. 1017-1031 ◽  
Author(s):  
QUN HE ◽  
YI-BING SHEN
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Harmonic Maps ◽  
Harmonic Map ◽  
Energy Functional ◽  
Second Variation ◽  
Finsler Manifolds ◽  
Totally Geodesic ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Second Variation ◽  
Weitzenböck Formula

By simplifying the first and the second variation formulas of the energy functional and generalizing the Weitzenböck formula, we study the stability and the rigidity of harmonic maps between Finsler manifolds. It is proved that any nondegenerate harmonic map from a compact Einstein Riemannian manifold with nonnegative scalar curvature to a Berwald manifold with nonpositive flag curvature is totally geodesic and there is no nondegenerate stable harmonic map from a Riemannian unit sphere Sn (n > 2) to any Finsler manifold.

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 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 Some examples of minimally degenerate Morse functions

1987 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Kirwan
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Critical Points ◽  
Morse Function ◽  
Compact Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Connected Components ◽  
Morse Inequalities ◽  
Poincaré Polynomial ◽  
Morse Functions ◽  
Image Position

Let X be a compact Riemannian manifold. If f:X→ℝ is a nondegenerate Morse function in the sense of Bott [2] then one has Morse inequalities which can be expressed in the formwhere Pt(X) is the Poincaré polynomial Σtidim Hi(X;ℚ of X ann {Cβ|β ∈B} are the connected components of the set of critical points for f For any polynomial Q(t)∈ℤ[t] we write Q(t)≧0 if all the coefficients of Q are nonnegative.

Some conditions ensuring the vanishing of harmonic differential forms with applications to harmonic maps and Yang-Mills theory

1982 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 441-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. C. J. Sealey
Keyword(s):  
Harmonic Maps ◽  
Harmonic Map ◽  
Differential Forms ◽  
Finite Energy ◽  
Energy Functional ◽  
Conformal Transformations ◽  
Second Variation ◽  
Yang Mills

In (5) it is shown that if m ≽ 3 then there is no non-constant harmonic map φ: ℝm → Sn with finite energy. The method of proof makes use of the fact that the energy functional is not invariant under conformal transformations. This fact has also allowed Xin(9), to show that any non-constant-harmonic map φ:Sm → (N, h), m ≽ 3, is not stable in the sense of having non-negative second variation.

Harmonic sections of vector bundles with spherically symmetric metrics

2022 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed T. K. Abbassi ◽  
Ibrahim Lakrini
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Vector Bundle ◽  
Critical Points ◽  
Vector Bundles ◽  
Energy Functional ◽  
Spherically Symmetric ◽  
Arbitrary Vector ◽  
Smooth Maps ◽  
Symmetric Metrics ◽  
Spherically Symmetric Metric

Abstract We equip an arbitrary vector bundle over a Riemannian manifold, endowed with a fiber metric and a compatible connection, with a spherically symmetric metric (cf. [4]), and westudy harmonicity of its sections firstly as smooth maps and then as critical points of the energy functional with variations through smooth sections.We also characterize vertically harmonic sections. Finally, we give some examples of special vector bundles, recovering in some situations some classical harmonicity results.

BUBBLING LOCATION FOR SEQUENCES OF APPROXIMATE f-HARMONIC MAPS FROM SURFACES

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (04) ◽  
pp. 475-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
YUXIANG LI ◽  
YOUDE WANG
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Riemann Surface ◽  
Critical Points ◽  
Homotopy Class ◽  
Blow Up ◽  
Harmonic Maps ◽  
Harmonic Map ◽  
Energy Identity ◽  
Minimal Point ◽  
Closed Riemann Surface

Let f be a positive smooth function on a closed Riemann surface (M, g). The f-energy of a map u from M to a Riemannian manifold (N, h) is defined as [Formula: see text] and its L2-gradient is: [Formula: see text] We will study the blow-up properties of some approximate f-harmonic map sequences in this paper. For a sequence uk : M → N with ‖τf(uk)‖L2 < C1 and Ef(uk) < C2, we will show that, if the sequence is not compact, then it must blow-up at some critical points of f or some concentrate points of |τf(uk)|2dVg. For a minimizing α-f-harmonic map sequence in some homotopy class of maps from M into N we show that, if the sequence is not compact, the blow-up points must be the minimal point of f and the energy identity holds true.

Stability of exponentially harmonic maps

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Yuan-Jen Chiang
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Compact Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Harmonic Maps ◽  
Harmonic Map ◽  
Compact Hypersurface ◽  
Simply Connected

We show that any stable exponentially harmonic map from a compact Riemannian manifold into a compact simply-connected [Formula: see text]-pinched Riemannian manifold under certain circumstance is constant in two different versions. We also prove that a non-constant exponentially harmonic map from a compact hypersurface into a compact Riemannian manifold satisfying certain condition is unstable.

SLANT RIEMANNIAN MAPS TO KÄHLER MANIFOLDS

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (02) ◽  
pp. 1250080 ◽  
Author(s):  
BAYRAM ṢAHIN
Keyword(s):  
Projective Space ◽  
Riemannian Manifolds ◽  
Complex Projective Space ◽  
Harmonic Maps ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Totally Geodesic ◽  
Hermitian Manifolds ◽  
Almost Hermitian Manifolds ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient ◽  
Complex Projective

We introduce slant Riemannian maps from Riemannian manifolds to almost Hermitian manifolds as a generalization of slant immersions, invariant Riemannian maps and anti-invariant Riemannian maps. We give examples, obtain characterizations and investigate the harmonicity of such maps. We also obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for slant Riemannian maps to be totally geodesic. Moreover, we relate the notion of slant Riemannian maps to the notion of pseudo horizontally weakly conformal (PHWC) maps which are useful for proving various complex-analytic properties of stable harmonic maps from complex projective space.

scholarly journals Semi-invariant Submersions from Almost Hermitian Manifolds

2013 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bayram Ṣahin
Keyword(s):  
Riemannian Manifold ◽  
Riemannian Manifolds ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Riemannian Submersion ◽  
Riemannian Submersions ◽  
Totally Geodesic ◽  
Hermitian Manifolds ◽  
Almost Hermitian Manifolds ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient

AbstractWe introduce semi-invariant Riemannian submersions from almost Hermitian manifolds onto Riemannian manifolds. We give examples, investigate the geometry of foliations that arise from the definition of a Riemannian submersion, and find necessary sufficient conditions for total manifold to be a locally product Riemannian manifold. We also find necessary and sufficient conditions for a semi-invariant submersion to be totally geodesic. Moreover, we obtain a classification for semiinvariant submersions with totally umbilical fibers and show that such submersions put some restrictions on total manifolds.

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