Harmonic Maps Between Surfaces: (With a Special Chapter on Conformal Mappings)

by Jürgen Jost

Geometric considerations.- Conformal mappings.- Existence theorems for harmonic maps between surfaces.- Uniqueness theorems.- A-priori C1,?-estimates.- A-priori estimates from below for the functional determinant of harmonic diffeomorphisms.- The existence of harmonic diffeomorphisms which solve a Dirichlet problem.- C1, ? - a priori estimates for arbitrary domains. Non-variational existence proofs.- Harmonic coordinates. C2, ? - a - priori estimates for harmonic maps.- The existence of harmonic diffeomorphisms between surfaces.- Applications of harmonic maps between surfaces.

152 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1984

About the author

Jürgen Jost is a German mathematician. He has been a director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig since 1996.