Geometry of Harmonic Maps
Xin, Yuanlong![Geometry of Harmonic Maps](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/133/13325690/CHSBZCOP0313325690.jpg)
Harmonic maps are solutions to a natural geometrical variational prob lem. This notion grew out of essential notions in differential geometry, such as geodesics, minimal surfaces and harmonic functions. Harmonic maps are also closely related to holomorphic maps in several complex variables, to the theory of stochastic processes, to nonlinear field theory in theoretical physics, and to the theory of liquid crystals in materials science. During...