Constant Mean Curvature Surfaces, Harmonic Maps and Integrable Systems

by Frédéric Hélein

One of the most striking development of the last decades in the study of minimal surfaces, constant mean surfaces and harmonic maps is the discovery that many classical problems in differential geometry - including these examples - are actually integrable systems. This theory grew up mainly after the important discovery of the properties of the Korteweg-de Vries equation in the sixties. After C. Gardner, J. Greene, M. Kruskal et R. Miura 44] showed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3764365765
• ISBN13: 9783764365769
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.4"