We construct biharmonic non-harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds and by first making the ansatz that be a harmonic map and then deforming the metric on by to render biharmonic, where is a smooth function with gradient of constant norm on and . We construct new examples of biharmonic non-harmonic maps, and we characterize the biharmonicity of some curves on Riemannian manifolds.
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...
Using the Maxwell-Higgs model, we prove that linearly unstable symmetric vortices in the Ginzburg-Landau theory are dynamically unstable in the H1 norm (which is the natural norm for the problem).In this work we study the dynamic instability of the radial solutions of the Ginzburg-Landau equations in R2 (...)