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An Improved Energy-Area Inequality for Harmonic Maps Using Image Curvature

Simon P Morgan

math.DGarXiv:math/0407499

Abstract

An ODE variational calculation shows that an image principle curvature ratio factor can raise the lower bound, 2(Image Area), on energy of a harmonic map of a surface into Rn. In certain situations, including all radially symmetry harmonic maps, equality is achieved.

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