TY - GEN AU - Urkawa,Hajime TI - Geometry of biharmonic mappings: : differential geometry of variational methods SN - 9789813236394 U1 - 516.36 23 PY - 2019/// CY - New Jersey PB - World Scientific KW - Mathematics KW - Geometry KW - Biharmonic Mappings N1 - Includes bibliography; Part 1: Fundamental materials on the theory of harmonic maps and biharmonic maps - Part 2: Rigidity and abundance of biharmonic maps -- Part 3: Biharmonic submanifolds -- Part 4: Further developments on biharmonic maps N2 - The 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. Readership: Researchers in global analysis, geometry, calculus of variations and partial differential equations ER -