Seminar series
Date
Mon, 02 Jun 2014
Time
17:00 -
18:00
Location
L6
Speaker
Roger Moser
Organisation
University of Bath
Biharmonic maps are the solutions of a variational problem for maps
between Riemannian manifolds. But since the underlying functional
contains nonlinear differential operators that behave badly on the usual
Sobolev spaces, it is difficult to study it with variational methods. If
the target manifold has enough symmetry, however, then we can combine
analytic tools with geometric observations and make some statements
about existence and regularity.