Finite Möbius Groups, Minimal Immersions of Spheres, and Moduli
"Spherical soap bubbles", isometric minimal immersions of round spheres into round spheres, or spherical immersions for short, belong to a fast growing and fascinating area between algebra and geometry. This theory has rich inteconnections with a variety of mathematical disciplines such as...
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Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
2002, 2002
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2002 |
Series: | Universitext
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Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Finite Mobius Groups
- 1.1 Platonic Solids and Finite Rotation Groups
- 1.2 Rotations and Möbius Transformations
- 1.3 Invariant Forms
- 1.4 Minimal Immersions of the 3-sphere into Spheres
- 1.5 Minimal Imbeddings of Spherical Space Forms into Spheres
- 1.6 Additional Topic: Klein’s Theory of the Icosahedron
- 2 Moduli for Eigenmaps
- 2.1 Spherical Harmonics
- 2.2 Generalities on Eigenmaps
- 2.3 Moduli
- 2.4 Raising and Lowering the Degree
- 2.5 Exact Dimension of the Moduli ?p
- 2.6 Equivariant Imbedding of Moduli
- 2.7 Quadratic Eigenmaps in Domain Dimension Three
- 2.8 Raising the Domain Dimension
- 2.9 Additional Topic: Quadratic Eigenmaps
- 3 Moduli for Spherical Minimal Immersions
- 3.1 Conformal Eigenmaps and Moduli
- 3.2 Conformal Fields and Eigenmaps
- 3.3 Conformal Fields and Raising and Lowering the Degree
- 3.4 Exact Dimension of the Moduli ?p
- 3.5 Isotropic Minimal Immersions
- 3.6 Quartic Minimal Immersions in Domain Dimension Three
- 3.7 Additional Topic: The Inverse of ?
- 4 Lower Bounds on the Range of Spherical Minimal Immersions
- 4.1 Infinitesimal Rotations of Eigenmaps
- 4.2 Infinitesimal Rotations and the Casimir Operator
- 4.3 Infinitesimal Rotations and Degree-Raising
- 4.4 Lower Bounds for the Range Dimension, Part I
- 4.5 Lower Bounds for t he Range Dimension, Part II
- 4.6 Additional Topic: Operators
- Appendix 1. Convex Sets
- Appendix 2. Harmonic Maps and Minimal Immersions
- Appendix 3. Some Facts from the Representation Theory of the Special Orthogonal Group
- Glossary of Notations