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Study energy-minimizing maps in projective spaces, proving sharp bounds.

New proof of harmonic map uniqueness with analytic targets.

In 1996, Shi generalized the epsilon-regularity theorem of Schoen and Uhlenbeck to energy-minimizing harmonic maps from a domain equipped with a bounded measurable Riemannian metric. In the present work we prove a compactness result for such energy-minimizing maps. As an application, we combine our result with Shi's th…

Rectifies singular set of harmonic maps into complex.

We show $C^{1,α}$-regularity for energy minimizing maps from a 2-dimensional Riemannian manifold into a Finsler space $(\R^n, F)$ with a Finsler structure $F(u,X)$.

We study the existence and regularity of energy-minimizing harmonic almost complex structures. We have proved results similar to the theory of harmonic maps, notably the classical results of Schoen-Uhlenbeck and recent advance by Cheeger-Naber.

In this paper, we prove the existence of energy minimizers in each free homotopy class of maps between polyhedra with target space without focal points. Our proof involves a careful study of some geometric properties of riemannian polhyedra without focal points. Among other things, we show that on the relevant polyhedr…

The goal of the present paper is to establish some kind of regularity of an energy minimizer map between Riemannian polyhedra. More precisely, we will show the hölder continuity of local energy minimizers between Riemannian polyhedra with the target spaces without focal points. With this new result, we also complete ou…

Optimizes energy of mappings from complex projective spaces.

We present a new proximal bundle method for Maximum-A-Posteriori (MAP) inference in structured energy minimization problems. The method optimizes a Lagrangean relaxation of the original energy minimization problem using a multi plane block-coordinate Frank-Wolfe method that takes advantage of the specific structure of …

Unique geodesics selected by energy minimization in Teichmüller space.

Energy minimizing harmonic maps between manifolds are known to be smooth outside a rectifiable set of codimension $3$, called the singular set. The possibility that this set is not a manifold, but has arbitrarily many small gaps in it, is not excluded in general. Here we prove that some part of the singular set - chara…

We show that for every quasi-isometric map from a Hadamard manifold of pinched negative curvature to a locally compact, Gromov hyperbolic, ${\rm CAT}(0)$-space there exists an energy minimizing harmonic map at finite distance. This harmonic map is moreover Lipschitz. This generalizes a recent result of Benoist-Hulin.

We prove existence and regularity results for energy minimizing maps between ideal hyperbolic 2-dimensional simplicial complexes. The spaces in question were introduced by Charitos-Papadopoulos, who describe their Teichmüller spaces and some compactifications. This work is a first step in introducing harmonic map theor…

New taxonomy and improved solvers for discrete energy minimization.

Study on harmonic maps in special geometric spaces.

Paper proves unique energy-minimizing curves in constrained spaces.

We study the notion of $p$-quasihomotopy in Newtonian classes of mappings and link it to questions concerning lifts of Newtonian maps, under the assumption that the target space is nonpositively curved. Using this connection we prove that every $p$-quasihomotopy class of Newtonian maps contains a minimizer of the $p$-e…

Lipschitz mappings found between Riemann surfaces with specific properties.

Investigates energy minimizers and critical points of scale-invariant tangent-point energies for knots.

Classifies low energy maps from curved surfaces into spheres.

The paper classifies energy-minimizing sets in specific domains.

Sharp bounds found for energy in projective space mappings.

Study proves existence of non-trivial harmonic map flows to hemispheres.

We prove that for any two closed Riemannian manifolds $M^{2m}$ ($m\geq 1$) and $N$, there exists a minimizing (extrinsic) $m$-polyharmonic map for every free homotopy class in $[M^{2m}, N]$, provided that the homotopy group $π_{2m}(N)$ is trivial. This generalizes the celebrated existence results for harmonic maps and …

In this paper we study the singular set of Dirichlet-minimizing $Q$-valued maps from $\mathbb{R}^m$ into a smooth compact manifold $\mathcal{N}$ without boundary. Similarly to what happens in the case of single valued minimizing harmonic maps, we show that this set is always $(m-3)$-rectifiable with uniform Minkowski b…

The study finds minimal distortion embeddings of surfaces into small domains.

Let $\varphi\in C^0 \cap W^{1,2}(Σ, X)$ where $Σ$ is a compact Riemann surface, $X$ is a compact locally CAT(1) space, and $W^{1,2}(Σ,X)$ is defined as in Korevaar-Schoen. We use the technique of harmonic replacement to prove that either there exists a harmonic map $u:Σ\to X$ homotopic to $\varphi$ or there exists a co…

Optimal Euclidean structure minimizes energy in weighted toroidal graphs.

We present effective methods to compute equivariant harmonic maps from the universal cover of a surface into a nonpositively curved space. By discretizing the theory appropriately, we show that the energy functional is strongly convex and derive convergence of the discrete heat flow to the energy minimizer, with explic…

The paper proves a Fenchel theorem for Gauss maps and shows circles and disks minimize certain energies.

In 1997, J. Jost [27] and F. H. Lin [39], independently proved that every energy minimizing harmonic map from an Alexandrov space with curvature bounded from below to an Alexandrov space with non-positive curvature is locally Hölder continuous. In [39], F. H. Lin proposed a challenge problem: Can the Hölder continuity …

Optimal discrete harmonic maps between hyperbolic surfaces are found via minimizing energy.

New theorem on 3-manifolds with curvature and convex boundary.

We determine regularity results for energy minimizing maps from an $n$-dimensional Riemannian polyhedral complex $X$ into a CAT(1) space. Provided that the metric on $X$ is Lipschitz regular, we prove Hölder regularity with Hölder constant and exponent dependent on the total energy of the map and the metric on the doma…

The energy of any $C^1$ representative of a homotopy class of maps from a compact and connected Riemannian manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature into a complete Riemannian manifold with no conjugate points is bounded below by a constant determined by the asymptotic geometry of the target, with equality if and only …

Study on biharmonic almost complex structures on compact manifolds.

Study on sphere-valued maps, proving energy convergence and current limits.

In this article we extend to generic $p$-energy minimizing maps between Riemannian manifolds a regularity result which is known to hold in the case $p=2$. We first show that the set of singular points of such a map can be quantitatively stratified: we classify singular points based on the number of almost-symmetries of…

The set of totally geodesic representatives of a homotopy class of maps from a compact Riemannian manifold $M$ with nonnegative Ricci curvature into a complete Riemannian manifold $N$ with no focal points is path-connected and, when nonempty, equal to the set of energy-minimizing maps in that class. When $N$ is compact…

We prove that energy minimizing Yang-Mills connections on a compact $G_{2}$-manifold has holonomy equal to $G_{2}$ are $G_{2}$-instantons, subject to an extra condition on the curvature. Furthermore, we show that energy minimizing connections on a compact Calabi-Yau $3$-fold has holonomy equal to $SU(3)$ subject to a s…

We study optimal double helices with straight axes (or the fattest tubes around them) computationally using three kinds of functionals; ideal ones using ropelength, best volume packing ones, and energy minimizers using two one-parameter families of interaction energies between two strands of types $r^{-α}$ and $\frac1r…

New minimal surface theory disproves a conjecture in symmetric spaces.

Introduces Causal Energy Minimization to understand Transformer layers.

There are two parts of this paper. First, we discovered an explicit formula for the complex Hessian of the weighted log-Bergman kernel on a parallelogram domain, and utilised this formula to give a new proof about the strict convexity of the Mabuchi functional along a smooth geodesic. Second, when a C^{1,1}-geodesic co…

In this paper, we investigate minimizing properties of the map $x/\|x\|$ from the Euclidean unit ball $\mathbf{B}^{n}$ to its boundary $\mathbb{S}^{n-1}$, for the weighted energy functionals $E^n\_{p,α}(u)=\int\_{\mathbf{B}^{n}} \|x\|^α\|\nabla u\|^p dx$. We establish the following induction principle: if the map $\fra…

Study of phase separation and geometry on a closed elastic curve, including dynamics and free energy minimization.

The paper studies harmonic graphs in the Heisenberg group and their properties.