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Conformally Invariant Variational Problems. - SAM

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critical point for variations in the domain : variations of the<br />

formu(id+tX)whereX ∈ C ∞ 0 (D2 ,R 2 ). Thisconditioniscalled<br />

the stationarity condition : u satisfies<br />

∀X ∈ C0 ∞ (D 2 ,R 2 d<br />

)<br />

dt E(u(id+tX)) | t=0<br />

= 0 .<br />

We shall now prove the following proposition.<br />

(V.9)<br />

Proposition V.2. A map u in W 1,2 (D 2 ,R m ) satisfies the stationarity<br />

condition (V.9) if and only if its Hopf differential<br />

h(u) = H(u) dz ⊗dz :=< ∂ z u,∂ z u > dz ⊗dz<br />

= 4 −1 [ |∂ x1 u| 2 −|∂ x2 u| 2 −2i < ∂ x1 u,∂ x2 u > ] dz ⊗dz<br />

is holomorphic.<br />

Remark V.2. Thestationarityconditionforgenerallagrangians<br />

in mathematical physics, equivalent to the conservation law<br />

∂ z H(u) ≡ 0<br />

✷<br />

(V.10)<br />

for the Dirichlet energy- the so called σ−model - corresponds<br />

to the conservation of the stress-energy tensor (see for<br />

instance (2.2) in II.2 of [JaTa] for the Yang-Mills-Higgs lagrangian).<br />

✷<br />

Proof of proposition V.2. Wedenotex t theflowassociatedto<br />

X such that x(0) = x and X = ∑ 2<br />

i=1 Xi ∂ xi . With this notation<br />

we apply the pointwise chain rule and obtain<br />

2∑<br />

∂ xk (u(x t )) = ∂ xi u(x t ) ∂ xk x i t ,<br />

which gives in particular<br />

∫ ∫<br />

|∇(u(x t ))| 2 dx = |∇u| 2 (x t ) dx<br />

D 2 D<br />

∫<br />

2<br />

+2 t (∂ xi u)(x t ) (∂ xj u)(x t ) ∂ xi X j dx+o(t)<br />

D 2<br />

i=1<br />

29<br />

(V.11)

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