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Existence of an infinite sequence of harmonic maps between spheres of certain dimensions was proven by Bizon and Chmaj. This sequence shares many features of the Bartnik-McKinnon sequence of solutions to the Einstein-Yang-Mills equations as well as sequences of solutions that have arisen in other physical models. We ap…

We define two transforms between non-conformal harmonic maps from a surface into the 3-sphere. With these transforms one can construct, from one such harmonic map, a sequence of harmonic maps. We show that there is a correspondence between non-conformal harmonic maps into the 3-sphere, $H$-surfaces in Euclidean 3-space…

Study index bounds for harmonic maps sequences with bubbles.

In this paper we prove a compactness theorem for a sequence of harmonic maps which are defined on a converging sequence of Riemannian manifolds.

We show that the Korevaar-Schoen limit of the sequence of equivariant harmonic maps corresponding to a sequence of irreducible $SL_2({\mathbb C})$ representations of the fundamental group of a compact Riemannian manifold is an equivariant harmonic map to an ${\mathbb R}$-tree which is minimal and whose length function …

We construct a closed Riemannian manifold $(N,h)$ and a sequence of $α$-harmonic maps from $S^2$ into $N$ with uniformly bounded energy such that the energy identity for this sequence is not true.

The paper classifies Willmore 2-spheres in $S^n$.

New spectral sequence for $\mathcal{K}$-manifolds, computing cohomology and harmonic forms.

Study existence of harmonic and Dirac-harmonic maps from degenerating surfaces.

Study improves regularity estimates for harmonic maps into ellipsoids.

The paper constructs non-convergent solutions to Vafa-Witten equations with specific harmonic 2-form limits.

Study on harmonic maps from surfaces with energy bounds and neck domains.

Study on spectral sequence for abelian Lie group actions, with bounds and applications.

In this paper, we study the blow-up phenomena on the $α_k$-harmonic map sequences with bounded uniformly $α_k$-energy, denoted by $\{u_{α_k}: α_k>1 \quad \mbox{and} \quad α_k\searrow 1\}$, from a compact Riemann surface into a compact Riemannian manifold. If the Ricci curvature of the target manifold is of a positive l…

Continuous time analysis of bubble formation in harmonic maps.

We determine bubble tree convergence for a sequence of harmonic maps, with uniform energy bounds, from a compact Riemann surface into a compact locally CAT(1) space. In particular, we demonstrate energy quantization and the no-neck property for such a sequence. In the smooth setting, Jost and Parker respectively establ…

Study on harmonic maps from surfaces to homogeneous spaces, focusing on bubble formation and geometric constraints.

Paper shows no finite time singularities for smooth conformal heat flow of harmonic maps.

Compactness theorem for Fueter sections yields non-zero harmonic 1-forms.

We will give a weak energy identity for Sacks-Uhlenbeck approximation of harmonic maps and calculate the length of the necks.

In this paper, we formulate and prove a general compactness theorem for harmonic maps using Deligne-Mumford moduli space and families of curves. The main theorem shows that given a sequence of harmonic maps over a sequence of complex curves, there is a family of curves and a subsequence such that both the domains and t…

We study the blow-up analysis and qualitative behavior for a sequence of harmonic maps with free boundary from degenerating bordered Riemann surfaces with uniformly bounded energy. With the help of Pohozaev type constants associated to harmonic maps defined on degenerating collars, including vertical boundary collars a…

We show that all superconformal harmonic immersions from genus one surfaces into de Sitter spaces $S ^ {2n}_1$ with globally defined harmonic sequence are of finite-type and hence result merely from solving a pair of ordinary differential equations. As an application, we prove that all Willmore tori in $S ^ 3$ with…

The paper studies sequences of solutions to Hitchin-Simpson equations on Kähler manifolds.

Study totally real flat minimal surfaces in hyperquadric.

A method of computation of its terms is presented together with some stabilization results. As an application a characterization of symplectic harmonic manifolds is given and a relationship with the C-spectral sequence is indicated.

We study harmonic maps from degenerating Riemann surfaces with uniformly bounded energy and show the so-called generalized energy identity. We find conditions that are both necessary and sufficient for the compactness in $W^{1,2}$ and $C^{0}$ modulo bubbles of sequences of such maps.

$α$-Dirac-harmonic maps are variations of Dirac-harmonic maps, analogous to $α$-harmonic maps that were introduced by Sacks-Uhlenbeck to attack the existence problem for harmonic maps from surfaces. For $α>1$, the latter are known to satisfy a Palais-Smale condtion, and so, the technique of Sacks-Uhlenbeck consists in …

We will investigate the local geometry of the surfaces in the $7$-dimensional Euclidean space associated to harmonic maps from a Riemann surface $Σ$ into $S^6$. By applying methods based on the use of harmonic sequences, we will characterize the conformal harmonic immersions $\varphi:Σ\to S^6$ whose associated immersio…

For stationary harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds, we provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the uniform interior and boundary gradient estimates in terms of the total energy of maps. We also show that if analytic target manifolds do not carry any harmonic S^2, then the singular sets of stationary map…

We prove the energy identity for min-max sequences of the Sacks-Uhlenbeck and the biharmonic approximation of harmonic maps from surfaces into general target manifolds. The proof relies on Hopf-differential type estimates for the two approximations and on estimates for the concentration radius of bubbles.

A formula connects discrete harmonic surfaces to holomorphic functions.

Stability of Morse index for harmonic maps on degenerating surfaces analyzed.

Proves a function's locally least gradient property if its level sets are minimal laminations.

We study Betti numbers of sequences of Riemannian manifolds which Benjamini-Schramm converge to their universal covers. Using the Price inequalities we developed elsewhere, we derive two distinct convergence results. First, under a negative Ricci curvature assumption and no assumption on sign of the sectional curvature…

Researchers create non-degenerate harmonic functions on n-dimensional space.

In this paper, we prove some refined estimate in the neck region when a sequence of harmonic maps from surfaces blow up. The new estimate allows us to see the shape of the center of the neck region. As an application, we prove an inequality about the nullity and index when blow-up occurs.

The harmonic map energy of a map from a closed, constant-curvature surface to a closed target manifold can be seen as a functional on the space of maps and domain metrics. We consider the gradient flow for this energy. In the absence of singularities, previous theory established that the flow converges to a branched mi…

For $n\ge 3$, let $Ω$ be a bounded domain in $R^n$ and $N$ be a compact Riemannian manifold in $R^L$ without boundary. Suppose that $u_n\in W^{1,n}(Ω,N)$ are the Palais-Smale sequences of the Dirichlet $n$-energy functional and $u_n$ converges weakly in $W^{1,n}$ to a map $u\in W^{1,n}(Ω,N)$. Then $u$ is a $n$-harmonic…

The Teichmüller harmonic map flow is a gradient flow for the harmonic map energy of maps from a closed surface to a general closed Riemannian target manifold of any dimension, where both the map and the domain metric are allowed to evolve. Given a weak solution of the flow that exists for all time $t\geq 0$, we find a …

For a sequence of coupled fields $\{(φ_n,ψ_n)\}$ from a compact Riemann surface $M$ with smooth boundary to a general compact Riemannian manifold with uniformly bounded energy and satisfying the Dirac-harmonic system up to some uniformly controlled error terms, we show that the energy identity holds during a blow-up pr…

This paper describes the behavior of sequences of solutions to the Kapustin-Witten equations with Nahm pole asymptotics on the product of the half-line with a compact, oriented, Riemannian 3-manifold. These sequences have sub-sequences that either converge to another solution after acting term-wise by an automorphism o…

The paper proves an energy identity for harmonic maps near singularities.

We study Dirac-harmonic maps from degenerating spin surfaces with uniformly bounded energy and show the so-called generalized energy identity in the case that the domain converges to a spin surface with only Neveu-Schwarz type nodes. We find condition that is both necessary and sufficient for the $W^{1,2} \times L^{4}$…

For a particular class of pseudo manifolds, we show that the intersection cohomology groups for any perversity may be naturally represented by extended weighted $L^2$ harmonic forms for a complete metric on the regular stratum with respect to some weight determined by the perversity. Extended weighted $L^2$ harmonic fo…

We show that many surfaces in $\R^{N^2-1}$ can be generated by harmonic maps of $S^2\to CP^{N-1}$. These surfaces are based on the projectors in $CP^{N-1}$ which describe maps of $S^2\to CP^{N-1}$. In the case when these maps form the Veronese sequence all the surfaces have constant curvature.

Closed Riemannian 4 or 5-manifolds contain branched immersed closed minimal surfaces.

In 2011 Enders, Müller and Topping showed that any blow up sequence of a Type I Ricci flow near a singular point converges to a non-trivial gradient Ricci soliton, leading them to conclude that for such flows all reasonable definitions of singular points agree with each other. We prove the analogous result for the harm…