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150 Harmonic maps, conservation laws and moving frames Second edition

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The contemplation of the atlas of an airline company always offers us something puzzling: the trajectories of the airplanes look curved, which goes against our basic intuition, according to which the shortest path is a straight line. One of the reasons for this paradox is nothing but a simple geometrical fact: on the one hand our earth is round and on the other hand the shortest path on a sphere is an arc of great circle: a curve whose projection on a geographical map rarely coincides with a straight line. Actually, choosing the trajectories of airplanes is a simple illustration of a classical variational problem in differential geometry: finding.