Download or read book On Harmonic Maps Into Conic Surfaces written by Jesse David Gell-Redman and published by Stanford University. This book was released on 2011 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We prove the existence and uniqueness of harmonic maps in degree one homotopy classes of closed, orientable surfaces of positive genus, where the target has non-positive gauss curvature and conic points with cone angles less than $2\pi$. For a homeomorphism $w$ of such a surface, we prove existence and uniqueness of minimizers in the homotopy class of $w$ relative to the inverse images of the cone points with cone angles less than or equal to $\pi$. We show that such maps are homeomorphisms and that they depend smoothly on the target metric. For fixed geometric data, the space of minimizers in relative degree one homotopy classes is a complex manifold of (complex) dimension equal to the number of cone points with cone angles less than or equal to $\pi$. When the genus is zero, we prove the same relative minimization provided there are at least three cone points of cone angle less than or equal to $\pi$.