'The present volume, written in a clear and precise style, ends with a rich bibliography of 167 items, including some classical books and papers. In the revieweraEUR (TM)s opinion, this excellent monograph will be a basic reference for graduate students and researchers working in the field of differential geometry of variational methods.'zbMATHThe author describes harmonic maps which are critical points of the energy functional, and biharmonic maps which are critical points of the bienergy functional. Also given are fundamental materials of the variational methods in differential geometry, and also fundamental materials of differential geometry.
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Hajime Urakawa (Tohoku Univ Japan) Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Country of Publication: Singapore ISBN:9789813236394 ISBN 10: 9813236396 Pages: 348 Publication Date:06 December 2018 Audience:
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