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Deformations of Metrics and Biharmonic Maps

Aicha Benkartab, Ahmed Mohammed Cherif (2020)

Communications in Mathematics

We construct biharmonic non-harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds ( M , g ) and ( N , h ) by first making the ansatz that ϕ : ( M , g ) ( N , h ) be a harmonic map and then deforming the metric on N by h ˜ α = α h + ( 1 - α ) d f d f to render ϕ biharmonic, where f is a smooth function with gradient of constant norm on ( N , h ) and α ( 0 , 1 ) . We construct new examples of biharmonic non-harmonic maps, and we characterize the biharmonicity of some curves on Riemannian manifolds.

Diastolic and isoperimetric inequalities on surfaces

Florent Balacheff, Stéphane Sabourau (2010)

Annales scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure

We prove a universal inequality between the diastole, defined using a minimax process on the one-cycle space, and the area of closed Riemannian surfaces. Roughly speaking, we show that any closed Riemannian surface can be swept out by a family of multi-loops whose lengths are bounded in terms of the area of the surface. This diastolic inequality, which relies on an upper bound on Cheeger’s constant, yields an effective process to find short closed geodesics on the two-sphere, for instance. We deduce...

Distinguished geodesics and jacobi fields on first order jet spaces

Vladimir Balan, Nicoleta Voicu (2004)

Open Mathematics

In the framework of jet spaces endowed with a non-linear connection, the special curves of these spaces (h-paths, v-paths, stationary curves and geodesics) which extend the corresponding notions from Riemannian geometry are characterized. The main geometric objects and the paths are described and, in the case when the vertical metric is independent of fiber coordinates, the first two variations of energy and the extended Jacobi field equations are derived.

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