Harmonic Maps and Minimal Immersions with Symmetries: Methods of Ordinary Differential Equations Applied to Elliptic Variational Problems

The aim of this book is to study harmonic maps, minimal and parallel mean curvature immersions in the presence of symmetry. In several instances, the latter permits reduction of the original elliptic variational problem to the qualitative study of certain ordinary differential equations: the authors' primary objective is to provide representative examples to illustrate these reduction methods and their associated analysis with geometric and topological applications.


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