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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154754703321

Autore

Eells James

Titolo

Harmonic Maps and Minimal Immersions with Symmetries (AM-130), Volume 130 : Methods of Ordinary Differential Equations Applied to Elliptic Variational Problems. (AM-130) / / Andrea Ratto, James Eells

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2016]

©1993

ISBN

1-4008-8250-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Annals of Mathematics Studies ; ; 312

Disciplina

514/.7

Soggetti

Harmonic maps

Immersions (Mathematics)

Differential equations, Elliptic - Numerical solutions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- INTRODUCTION -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PART 1. BASIC VARIATIONAL AND GEOMETRICAL PROPERTIES -- PART 2. G-INVARIANT MINIMAL AND CONSTANT MEAN CURVATURE IMMERSIONS -- PART 3. HARMONIC MAPS BETWEEN SPHERES -- APPENDIX 1. SECOND VARIATIONS -- APPENDIX 2. RIEMANNIAN IMMERSIONS Sm → Sn -- APPENDIX 3. MINIMAL GRAPHS AND PENDENT DROPS -- APPENDIX 4. FURTHER ASPECTS OF PENDULUM TYPE EQUATIONS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The aim of this book is to study harmonic maps, minimal and parallel mean curvature immersions in the presence of symmetry. In several instances, the latter permits reduction of the original elliptic variational problem to the qualitative study of certain ordinary differential equations: the authors' primary objective is to provide representative examples to illustrate these reduction methods and their associated analysis with geometric and topological applications. The material covered by the book displays a solid interplay involving geometry, analysis and topology: in particular, it includes a basic presentation of 1-cohomogeneous equivariant differential geometry and of the theory of harmonic maps between spheres.