Solenoidal unit vector fields with minimum energy

zbMath1076.53078MaRDI QIDQ1763037

Marcos Salvai, Fabiano Gustavo Braga Brito

Publication date: 18 February 2005

Published in: Osaka Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Riemannian manifoldminimal energysolenoidal vector fieldtotal bending

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21)

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