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We prove the rigidity of isotropic harmonic maps from a 2-torus to a complex projective space, when they are constructed from holomorphic embeddings associated to complete linear systems. We also prove that this rigidity holds for any…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Yoshinori Hashimoto , Bruno Mera , Tomoki Ozawa

We consider critical points $u:\Omega\to N$ of the bi-energy \[ \int_\Omega |\Delta u|^2\,d x, \] where $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^m$ is a bounded smooth domain of dimension $m\ge 5$ and $N\subset\mathbb{R}^L$ a compact submanifold without…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Serdar Altuntas , Christoph Scheven

Motivated by the theory of harmonic maps on Riemannian surfaces, conformal-harmonic maps between two Riemannian manifolds $M$ and $N$ were introduced in search of a natural notion of harmonicity for maps defined on a general even…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Longzhi Lin , Jingyong Zhu

This is an expository article which describes one approach to the construction and classification of harmonic tori "of finite type", namely, via their ring of polynomial Killing fields. To keep the discussion focussed, the first section is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-16 I McIntosh

The vector field problem is an important and classical problem in differential topology. In this survey we shall consider the vector field problem focusing mainly on the class of compact homogeneous spaces.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-11-30 Parameswaran Sankaran

We consider the holomorphic normalization problem for a holomorphic vector field in the neighborhood of the product of a fixed point and an invariant torus. Supposing that the vector field is a perturbation of a linear part around the fixed…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-02-11 Claire Chavaudret

We prove that if two conformal embeddings between Riemann surfaces with finite topology are homotopic, then they are isotopic through conformal embeddings. Furthermore, we show that the space of all conformal embeddings in a given homotopy…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2019-10-16 Maxime Fortier Bourque

We provide a construction method for biharmonic submanifolds in cohomogeneity one manifolds. In particular, we give new examples of biharmonic submanifolds and study the normal index of these submanifolds. We use this strategy to construct…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-06 José Miguel Balado-Alves , Anna Siffert

A hypermap is (hypervertex-) bipartite if its hypervertices can be 2-coloured in such a way that ``neighbouring'' hypervertices have different colours. It is bipartite-uniform if within each of the sets of hypervertices of the same colour,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Antonio Breda d'Azevedo , Rui Duarte

Pseudo-harmonic morphisms give rise on the domain space to a distribution which admits an almost complex structure compatible with the given Riemannian metric. We shall show that this property, together with the harmonicity, are preserved…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Radu Slobodeanu

We state the intrinsic form of the Hamiltonian equations of first-order Classical Field theories in three equivalent geometrical ways: using multivector fields, jet fields and connections. Thus, these equations are given in a form similar…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-11 A. Echeverría-Enríquez , M. C. Muñoz-Lecanda , N. Román-Roy

The purpose of these notes is to show that the methods introduced by Bauer and Furuta in order to refine the Seiberg-Witten invariants of smooth 4-dimensional manifolds can also be used to obtain stable homotopy classes from Riemann…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-10-30 Markus Szymik

Rotation vectors, as defined for homeomorphisms of the torus that are isotopic to the identity, are generalized to such homeomorphisms of any complete Riemannian manifold with non-positive sectional curvature. These generalized rotation…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-09-13 Pablo Lessa

We give a complete classification of local and global conformal biharmonic maps between any two space forms by proving that a conformal map between two space forms is proper biharmonic if and only if the dimension is 4, the domain is flat,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-23 Ye-Lin Ou

We establish two-point distortion theorems for sense-preserving planar harmonic mappings $f=h+\overline{g}$ which satisfies the univalence criteria in the unit disc such that, Becker's and Nehari`s harmonic version. In addition, we find the…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2022-08-08 Víctor Bravo , Rodrigo Hernández , Osvaldo Venegas

We develop a "metrically selfdual" variational calculus for $c$-monotone vector fields between general manifolds $X$ and $Y$, where $c$ is a coupling on $X\times Y$. Remarkably, many of the key properties of classical monotone operators…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-10 Nassif Ghoussoub , Abbas Moameni

Bisectors are equidistant hypersurfaces between two points and are basic objects in a metric geometry. They play an important part in understanding the action of subgroups of isometries on a metric space. In many metric geometries…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-29 Virginie Charette , Todd A. Drumm , Youngju Kim

In this paper, we study biharmonic Riemannian submersions. We first derive bitension field of a general Riemannian submersion, we then use it to obtain biharmonic equations for Riemannian submersions with $1$-dimensional fibers and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-15 Mehmet Akif Akyol , Ye-Lin Ou

We study the geometrical properties of a unit vector field on a Riemannian 2-manifold, considering the field as a local imbedding of the manifold into its tangent sphere bundle with the Sasaki metric. For the case of constant curvature K,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Yampolsky

This short report establishes some basic properties of smooth vector fields on product manifolds. The main results are: (i) On a product manifold there always exists a direct sum decomposition into horizontal and vertical vector fields.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-07 Stefan Kurz