Coulomb Frames in the Normal Bundle of Surfaces in Euclidean Spaces

Download or read book Coulomb Frames in the Normal Bundle of Surfaces in Euclidean Spaces written by Steffen Fröhlich and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended for advanced students and young researchers interested in the analysis of partial differential equations and differential geometry. It discusses elementary concepts of surface geometry in higher-dimensional Euclidean spaces, in particular the differential equations of Gauss-Weingarten together with various integrability conditions and corresponding surface curvatures. It includes a chapter on curvature estimates for such surfaces, and, using results from potential theory and harmonic analysis, it addresses geometric and analytic methods to establish the existence and regularity of Coulomb frames in their normal bundles, which arise as critical points for a functional of total torsion.