Developments of Harmonic Maps, Wave Maps and Yang-Mills F...
Chiang, Yuan-Jen![Developments of Harmonic Maps, Wave Maps and Yang-Mills Fields into Biharmonic Maps, Biwave Maps and Bi-Yang-Mills Fields](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/134/13436609/CHSBZCOP0313436609.jpg)
Harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds were first established in 1964. Wave maps are harmonic maps on Minkowski spaces and have been studied since the 1990s. Yang-Mills fields, the critical points of Yang-Mills functionals of connections whose curvature tensors are harmonic, were explored by a few physicists in the 1950s, and biharmonic maps (generalizing harmonic maps) were introduced in 1986. The book presents an overview of the importan...