Weak conformality of stable stationary maps for a functional related to conformality
Weak conformality of stable stationary maps for a functional related to conformality
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与共形性相关的函数的稳定平稳映射的弱共形性
DOI:
10.1016/j.difgeo.2012.11.002
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发表时间:
2013
影响因子:
0.5
通讯作者:
Shigeo Kawai and Nobumitsu Nakauchi
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作者:
I. B´ar´any;J. Itoh;C. Vilcu;Shigeo Kawai and Nobumitsu Nakauchi
Let (M,g), (N,h) be compact Riemannian manifolds without boundary, and let f be a smooth map from M into N. We consider a covariant symmetric tensor Tf=f⁎h−1m‖df‖2g, where f⁎h denotes the pullback of the metric h by f, and m is the dimension of the manifold M. The tensor Tfvanishes if and only if the map f is weakly conformal. The norm ‖Tf‖ is a quantity which is a measure of conformality of f at each point. In Nakauchi (2011) [5] the second author introduced maps which are critical points of the functional Φ(f)=∫M‖Tf‖2dvg. We call such maps C-stationary maps. Any conformal map or more generally any weakly conformal map is a C-stationary map. It is of interest to find when a C-stationary map is a (weakly) conformal map. In this paper we prove the following result. If f is a stable C-stationary map from the standard sphere Sm(m⩾5) or into the standard sphere Sn(n⩾5), then f is a weakly conformal map.