(n,rho)-harmonic mappings and energy minimal deformations between annuli

We extend the main results obtained by Iwaniec and Onninen in Memoirs of the AMS (2012). In the paper it is solved the minimization problem of $(\rho,n)$ energy of Sobolev homeomorphisms between two concentric annuli in the Euclidean space $\mathbf{R}^n$. Here $\rho$ is a radial metric defined in the image annulus. The key of the proofs comes from the solution to the Euler-Lagrange equation for radial harmonic mapping. This is a new contribution on the topic of famous Nitsche conjecture.