TITLE

A new approach to some nonlinear geometric equations in dimension two

AUTHOR(S)
Fengbo Hang; Xiaodong Wang
PUB. DATE
May 2006
SOURCE
Calculus of Variations & Partial Differential Equations;May2006, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p119
SOURCE TYPE
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
We give new arguments for several Liouville type results related to the equation -?u = Ke2u. The new approach is based on the holomorphic function associated with any solution, which plays a similar role as the Hopf differential for harmonic maps from a surface.
ACCESSION #
21722682

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