The heat flows and harmonic maps of complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds.
Let = u: u unitary and u-1 compact stand for the unitary Fredholm group. We prove the following convexity result. Denote by the rectifiable distance induced by the Finsler metric given by the operator norm in . If and the geodesic β joining u₀ and u₁ in satisfy , then the map is convex for s ∈ [0,1]. In particular, the convexity radius of the geodesic balls in is π/4. The same convexity property holds in the p-Schatten unitary groups = u: u unitary and u-1 in the p-Schatten class...
We first discuss a class of inequalities of Onofri type depending on a parameter, in the two-dimensional Euclidean space. The inequality holds for radial functions if the parameter is larger than . Without symmetry assumption, it holds if and only if the parameter is in the interval . The inequality gives us some insight on the symmetry breaking phenomenon for the extremal functions of the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequality, in two space dimensions. In fact, for suitable sets of parameters (asymptotically...
The geometric description of Yang–Mills theories and their configuration space is reviewed. The presence of singularities in M is explained and some of their properties are described. The singularity structure is analysed in detail for structure group SU(2). This review is based on [28].