Harmonic mappings are a generalisation of geodesics, and are defined as the solutions to a natural variational problem. Interest in them began in 1873 with Plateau's problem of finding surfaces of minimal area bounded by given closed space curves. The field has been studied by mathematicians and physicists ever since, and is now both broad and extremely active. In this dissertation I consider harmonic maps which can be studied using integrable systems, and thus by algebro-geometric means. In particular I focus upon a simple case of both geometric and physical interest, namely harmonic maps f from a 2-torus (with conformal structure τ) to the 3-sphere. In [10] Hitchin showed that (except in the case of a conformal map to a totally geodesic S2 ⊆ S 3) the data (f, τ) is in one-to-one correspondence with certain algebro-geometric data. This data consists of a hyperelliptic curve X (called the spectral curve) together with a projection map , a pair of holomorphic functions on , and a line bundle on X, all satisfying certain conditions. He proved (case-by-case) that for g ≤ 3, there are curves of genus g that support the required data, and hence describe harmonic maps f : (T2, τ) → S 3. Of especial interest are conformal harmonic maps as their images are minimal surfaces. I show that for each g ≥ 0, there are countably many conformal harmonic maps f : ( T2, τ) → S3 whose spectral curves have genus g.
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机译:谐波映射是测地线的概括,被定义为自然变分问题的解决方案。对它们的兴趣始于1873年高原问题,即寻找由给定封闭空间曲线界定的最小面积的表面。从那时起,数学家和物理学家就对这一领域进行了研究,现在这一领域既广泛又非常活跃。在这篇论文中,我考虑了谐波图,可以使用可积系统,从而通过代数几何方法来研究谐波图。我特别关注几何和物理兴趣的简单情况,即从2个托勒斯(具有保形结构τ)到3个球体的谐波映射 f italic>。在[10]中,Hitchin表明(除了在完全测地的 S italic> 2 super>⊆ S italic> 3 < / super>)数据( f italic>,τ)与某些代数几何数据一一对应。此数据由超椭圆曲线 X italic>(称为光谱曲线)以及投影图展开▼