Harmonic maps and differential geometry : a harmonic map fest in honour of John C. Wood's 60th birthday, September 7-10, 2009, Cagliari, Italy

This volume contains the proceedings of a conference held in Cagliari, Italy, from September 7-10, 2009, to celebrate John C. Wood's 60th birthday. These papers reflect the many facets of the theory of harmonic maps and its links and connections with other topics in Differential and Riemannian...

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Main Authors: Loubeau, E. (Eric), Montaldo, S. (Stefano), Wood, John C.
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Providence, R.I American Mathematical Society 2011
Series:Contemporary mathematics
Subjects:
Calculus of variations and optimal control; optimization > Variational principles of physics > Variational principles of physics (should also be assigned at least one other classification number in section 49). msc
Differential geometry > Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. msc
Differential geometry. msc
Geometry, Differential
Geometry, Differential > Congresses
Global analysis, analysis on manifolds > Spaces and manifolds of mappings (including nonlinear versions of 46Exx) > Spaces of imbeddings and immersions. msc
Global analysis, analysis on manifolds > Variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces > Variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces. msc
Harmonic maps
Harmonic maps > Congresses
Linear and multilinear algebra; matrix theory > Basic linear algebra > Miscellaneous inequalities involving matrices. msc
Manifolds and cell complexes > Differential topology > Symplectic and contact topology. msc
Partial differential equations. msc
Quantum theory > Quantum field theory; related classical field theories > Quantum field theory on curved space backgrounds. msc
Wood, John C
ISBN:0821849875, 9780821849873
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Summary:This volume contains the proceedings of a conference held in Cagliari, Italy, from September 7-10, 2009, to celebrate John C. Wood's 60th birthday. These papers reflect the many facets of the theory of harmonic maps and its links and connections with other topics in Differential and Riemannian Geometry. Two long reports, one on constant mean curvature surfaces by F. Pedit and the other on the construction of harmonic maps by J. C. Wood, open the proceedings. These are followed by a mix of surveys on Prof. Wood's area of expertise: Lagrangian surfaces, biharmonic maps, locally conformally Kahler manifolds and the DDVV conjecture, as well as several research papers on harmonic maps. Other research papers in the volume are devoted to Willmore surfaces, Goldstein-Pedrich flows, contact pairs, prescribed Ricci curvature, conformal fibrations, the Fadeev-Hopf model, the Compact Support Principle and the curvature of surfaces.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references
ISBN:0821849875
9780821849873