Cartesian Currents in the Calculus of Variations II Variational Inte
Non-scalar variational problems appear in different fields. In geometry, for in stance, we encounter the basic problems of harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds and of minimal immersions; related questions appear in physics, for example in the class
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Volume 38
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A Series of Modern Surveys in Mathematics
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Mariano Giaquinta Giuseppe Modica Jiti Soucek
Cartesian Currents in the Calculus of Variations II Variational Integrals
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Mariano Giaquinta Dipartimento di Matematica Universita di Pisa Via F. Buonarroti, 2 1-56127 Pisa Italy Giuseppe Modica Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata Universita di Firenze Via S. Marta, 3 1-50139 Firenze Italy Jiff Soucek Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Charles University Sokolovska,83 18600 Praha 8 Czech Republic
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Preface
Non-scalar variational problems appear in different fields. In geometry, for instance, we encounter the basic problems of harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds and of minimal immersions; related questions appear in physics, for example in the classical theory of a-models. Non linear elasticity is another example in continuum mechanics, while Oseen-Frank theory of liquid crystals and Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductivity require to treat variational problems in order to model quite comp
