Harmonic Maps and Differential Geometry: A Harmonic Map Fest in Honour of John C. Wood's 60th Birthday, September 7-10, 2009,...

Harmonic Maps and Differential Geometry: A Harmonic Map Fest in Honour of John C. Wood's 60th Birthday, September 7-10, 2009,...
ISBN-10
0821849875
ISBN-13
9780821849873
Category
Mathematics
Pages
284
Language
English
Published
2011
Publisher
American Mathematical Soc.
Author
John C. Wood

Description

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.

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