Free shipping on orders over $49 - Limited time only - T&Cs apply
Track My Order
Help Centre
Likes
My Wish ListsLogin / Join
Booktopia
Australia's local bookstore
Get Free Shipping on orders over $49
Harmonic Maps Into Homogeneous Spaces : Chapman & Hall/CRC Research Notes in Mathematics Series - Malcolm Black

Harmonic Maps Into Homogeneous Spaces

By: Malcolm Black

eText | 4 May 2018 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

eText

$396.00

or 4 interest-free payments of $99.00 with

 or 

Instant online reading in your Booktopia eTextbook Library *

Why choose an eTextbook?

Instant Access *

Purchase and read your book immediately

Read Aloud

Listen and follow along as Bookshelf reads to you

Study Tools

Built-in study tools like highlights and more

* eTextbooks are not downloadable to your eReader or an app and can be accessed via web browsers only. You must be connected to the internet and have no technical issues with your device or browser that could prevent the eTextbook from operating.

Harmonic maps and the related theory of minimal surfaces are variational problems of long standing in differential geometry. Many important advances have been made in understanding harmonic maps of Riemann surfaces into symmetric spaces. In particular, ""twistor methods"" construct some, and in certain cases all, such mappings from holomorphic data. These notes develop techniques applicable to more general homogeneous manifolds, in particular a very general twistor result is proved. When applied to flag manifolds, this wider viewpoint allows many of the previously unrelated twistor results for symmetric spaces to be brought into a unified framework. These methods also enable a classification of harmonic maps into full flag manifolds to be established, and new examples are constructed. The techniques used are mostly a blend of the theory of compact Lie groups and complex differential geometry. This book should be of interest to mathematicians with experience in differential geometry and to theoretical physicists.

on
Desktop
Tablet
Mobile

You Can Find This eBook In

Non-FictionMathematicsCalculus & Mathematical AnalysisDifferential Calculus & EquationsGeometryDifferential & Riemannian GeometryGroups & Group Theory

More in Differential & Riemannian Geometry

Nonlinear Continua - Eduardo N. Dvorkin

eTEXT

Nonlinear Continua

eText

$159.01

Generalized Curvatures - Jean-Marie Morvan

eTEXT

Generalized Curvatures

eText

$189.00

Mixed Hodge Structures - Chris A. M. Peters

eTEXT

Mixed Hodge Structures

eText

$219.00

This product is categorised by