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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

We develop a harmonic gauge on the space of Riemannian metrics and study its role in the variational and flow-theoretic structure of geometric analysis. We prove that the harmonic gauge eliminates divergence-type terms in the first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Stepanov Sergey

Secondary homological stability is a recently discovered stability pattern for the homology of a sequence of spaces exhibiting homological stability in a range where homological stability does not hold. We prove secondary homological…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Zachary Himes

We study harmonic maps from Riemannian manifolds into arbitrary non-positively curved and CAT(-1) metric spaces. First we discuss the domain variation formula with special emphasis on the error terms. Expanding higher order terms of this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Brian Freidin

This note introduces an extension to the definition of symphonic maps, denoted as $\varphi:(M,g)\longrightarrow(N,h)$, by exploring variations in the bi-energy functional associated with the pullback metric $\varphi^*h$ between two…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Ahmed Mohammed Cherif , Kaddour Zegga

The study of higher order energy functionals was first proposed by Eells and Sampson in 1965 and, later, by Eells and Lemaire in 1983. These functionals provide a natural generalization of the classical energy functional. More precisely,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Volker Branding , Stefano Montaldo , Cezar Oniciuc , Andrea Ratto

Using the language of twisted skew-commutative algebras, we define \emph{secondary representation stability}, a stability pattern in the {\it unstable} homology of spaces that are representation stable in the sense of Church, Ellenberg, and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Jeremy Miller , Jennifer C. H. Wilson

In this paper, the description of biharmonic map equation in terms of the Maurer-Cartan form for all smooth map of a compact Riemannian manifold into a Riemannian symmetric space $(G/K,h)$ induced from the bi-invariant Riemannian metric $h$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-02-01 Hajime Urakawa

We continue our study [Ou4] of f-biharmonic maps and f-biharmonic submanifolds by exploring the applications of f-biharmonic maps and the relationships among biharmonicity, f-biharmonicity and conformality of maps between Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-03 Ye-Lin Ou

In [12], the authors studied a particular class of equilibrium solutions of the Helfrich energy which satisfy a second order condition called the reduced membrane equation. In this paper we develop and apply a second variation formula for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-11 Bennett Palmer , Alvaro Pampano

We address the dynamical and statistical description of stably stratified turbulent boundary layers with the important example of the atmospheric boundary layer with a stable temperature stratification in mind. Traditional approaches to…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-02-18 Victor S. L'vov , Itamar Procaccia , Oleksii Rudenko

We study the inverse boundary value problems of determining a potential in the Helmholtz type equation for the perturbed biharmonic operator from the knowledge of the partial Cauchy data set. Our geometric setting is that of a domain whose…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Boya Liu

This report attempts a clean presentation of the theory of harmonic maps from complex and K\"ahler manifolds to Riemannian manifolds. After reviewing the theory of harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds initiated by Eells--Sampson and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-08 Brice Loustau

Based on the gauge invariant variables proposed in our previous paper [K. Nakamura, Prog. Theor. Phys. vol.110 (2003), 723.], some formulae of the perturbative curvatures of each order are derived. We follow the general framework of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Kouji Nakamura

The Robert-Sommeria-Miller equilibrium statistical mechanics predicts the final organization of two dimensional flows. This powerful theory is difficult to handle practically, due to the complexity associated with an infinite number of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Freddy Bouchet

We construct an explicit family of stable proper weak biharmonic maps from the unit ball $B^m$, $m\geq 5$, to Euclidean spheres. To the best of the authors knowledge this is the first example of a stable proper weak biharmonic map from at…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Volker Branding , Anna Siffert

In this paper, we investigate the stability of the configurations of harmonic oscillator potential that are directly proportional to the square of the displacement. We derive expressions for fluctuations in partition function due to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-24 R. K. Thakur , B. N. Tiwari , R. Nigam , Y. Xu , P. K. Thiruvikraman

This paper studies formulations of second-order elliptic partial differential equations in nondivergence form on convex domains as equivalent variational problems. The first formulation is that of Smears \& S\"uli [SIAM J.\ Numer.\ Anal.\…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-17 Dietmar Gallistl

Euler-Lagrange equations and variational integrators are developed for Lagrangian mechanical systems evolving on a product of two-spheres. The geometric structure of a product of two-spheres is carefully considered in order to obtain global…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-07-03 Taeyoung Lee , Melvin Leok , N. Harris McClamroch

In this second article of a series we propose to base criteria of stability on the hamiltonian functional that is provided by the variational principle, to replace the reliance that has often been placed on {\it ad hoc} definitions of the…

General Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Christian Frønsdal