Study existence of harmonic and Dirac-harmonic maps from degenerating surfaces.
problem Existence of harmonic and Dirac-harmonic maps from degenerating surfaces.
method Using the Sacks and Uhlenbeck scheme, analyze a sequence of maps from degenerating surfaces to non-positive curved manifolds.
result Existence of limiting harmonic and Dirac-harmonic maps under certain conditions.
New ε-harmonic maps of low degree are rigid under certain energy bounds.
problem Understanding the rigidity of ε-harmonic maps of low degree. method Analysis of ε-harmonic maps and their critical points. result Non-trivial ε-harmonic maps of degree zero exist with energy above 8π. We extend the well-known Sacks-Uhlenbeck energy gap result (1981) for harmonic maps from closed Riemann surfaces into closed Riemannian manifolds from the case of maps with small energy (thus near a constant map), to the case of harmonic maps with high absolute energy but small energy relative to a reference harmonic m…
Finite energy solutions of 4-harmonic and ES-4-harmonic maps are trivial.
problem Characterizing the qualitative behavior of 4-harmonic and ES-4-harmonic maps.
method Proving triviality of finite energy solutions for both maps.
result Finite energy solutions of both 4-harmonic and ES-4-harmonic maps are trivial.
Study sesqui-harmonic map flow from Riemannian surfaces
problem Investigate sesqui-harmonic map flow from Riemannian surfaces
method L2-gradient flow of an energy functional
result Generalizes Struwe's regularity result for harmonic maps
The paper studies critical points of horizontal energy functional in Riemannian foliations.
problem Analyzing critical points of horizontal energy functional in Riemannian foliations.
method Utilizing stress-energy tensor, establishing monotonicity formulas, and Jin-type theorems.
result Established monotonicity formulas for horizontally harmonic maps and transversally harmonic maps.
Paper proves energy identity and no-neck property for special harmonic maps.
problem Analyzing special harmonic maps with homogeneous targets.
method Introduced equivariant embedding for ε-harmonic case. result Energy identity and no-neck property established for ε- and α-harmonic maps. New proof of harmonic map uniqueness with analytic targets.
problem Uniqueness of energy-minimizing harmonic maps with analytic targets.
method Symmetric (log)-epiperimetric inequality for harmonic maps with analytic targets.
result Tangents at infinity of energy-minimizing harmonic maps are unique.
Study on infinite energy maps from surfaces to CAT(0) spaces.
problem Harmonic maps with infinite energy from Riemann surfaces to CAT(0) spaces.
method Estimates of energy growth near punctures, proof of uniqueness.
result Precise estimates of energy growth near punctures and proof of uniqueness of harmonic maps.
The paper constructs gluing maps for harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds.
problem Constructing harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds.
method Gluing construction of extended harmonic maps.
result Construction of gluing maps for harmonic maps under specific conditions.
The paper extends energy identities and neck existence for ε-harmonic maps.
problem Understanding the energy identity and neck formation for ε-harmonic maps.
method Finding analogues of energy identities and neck existence results for ε-harmonic maps.
result Specific quantities determine energy identity and neck formation for ε-harmonic maps.
The paper explores α−harmonic maps and their stability, proving key properties and conditions.
problem Existence and stability of α−harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds. method Analysis of α−energy functional, construction of α−harmonic maps, and stability conditions. result Conditions for the stability of α−harmonic maps and their instability from compact manifolds. Paper excludes the lowest energy level as an accumulation point for harmonic maps into analytic manifolds.
problem Analytic manifolds and their harmonic maps energy spectrum.
method Exclusion of the lowest energy level as an accumulation point using obstructions to the gluing of harmonic spheres and Lojasiewicz-estimates.
result Proves that the lowest energy level is not an accumulation point for generic 3-manifolds.
Study proves Lojasiewicz inequalities for harmonic maps near simple bubble trees.
problem Analyzing harmonic maps near simple bubble trees.
method Proves Lojasiewicz inequalities for harmonic maps close to simple bubble trees.
result Obtains new results on the convergence of harmonic map flow and energy spectrum.
Dirac-harmonic maps are uncoupled under certain conditions.
problem Understanding the uncoupling of Dirac-harmonic maps.
method Critical points of a super-symmetric energy functional, with focus on harmonic maps.
result Dirac-harmonic maps are uncoupled under minimality assumption.
Defines renormalised energies for singular harmonic maps into compact manifolds.
problem Analyzing harmonic maps with singularities in planar domains.
method Introduces renormalised energies and synharmony to study singularities and minimising configurations.
result Renormalised energies are coercive and Lipschitz-continuous, and associated with minimising singular harmonic maps.
In this paper we consider approximations introduced by Sacks-Uhlenbeck of the harmonic energy for maps from S2 into S2. We continue the analysis in [6] about limits of α-harmonic maps with uniformly bounded energy. Using a recent energy identity in [7], we obtain an optimal gap theorem for the α-harmonic maps…
Critical points of approximations of the Dirichlet energy à la Sacks-Uhlenbeck are known to converge to harmonic maps in a suitable sense. However, we show that not every harmonic map can be approximated by critical points of such perturbed energies. Indeed, we prove that constant maps and the rotations of S2 are th…
Asymptotic behavior of energy of a harmonic map defined on an asymptotically hyperbolic manifold is considered. Using the growth of energy, we show that a harmonic map defined on some asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds has to be constant if the total energy is finite, or if the map approaches a point fast enough, in t…
The paper studies maps from pseudo-Hermitian to Kähler manifolds, proving harmonic map properties.
problem Analyzing maps between pseudo-Hermitian and Kähler manifolds.
method Investigates partial energy functionals and critical maps, proving foliated results for ∂b- and ∂b-harmonic maps. result Generalizes Siu's holomorphicity result to ∂b- and ∂b-harmonic maps. Optimal discrete harmonic maps between hyperbolic surfaces are found via minimizing energy.
problem Finding optimal discrete harmonic maps between hyperbolic surfaces.
method Minimizing Dirichlet energy over all possible hyperbolic structures and realizations within a fixed homotopy class.
result At the optimal hyperbolic structure, the discrete harmonic map and edge weights are induced from a weighted Delaunay decomposition.
We introduce a combinatorial energy for maps of triangulated surfaces with simplicial metrics and analyze the existence and uniqueness properties of the corresponding harmonic maps. We show that some important applications of smooth harmonic maps can be obtained in this setting.
Classifies low energy maps from curved surfaces into spheres.
problem Classifying maps from surfaces of constant curvature into spheres.
method Analyzes maps with low energy and degree ±1, focusing on bubble configurations.
result Maps are quantitively close to a bubble configuration with specific radii.
Study on harmonic maps from surfaces with energy bounds and neck domains.
problem Behavior of harmonic maps with bounded energy on complex domains.
method Analysis of a sequence of harmonic maps in generalized neck domains.
result Upper bound of energy density and study of nullity and index limits.
Every harmonic map is an intrinsic bi-harmonic map as an absolute minimizer of the intrinsic bi-energy functional, therefore intrinsic bi-harmonic map and its heat flow are more geometrically natural to study, but they are also considerably more difficult analytically than the extrinsic counterparts due to the lack of …
In this paper, we introduce the stress-energy tensors of the partial energies E'(f) and E"(f) of maps between Kaehler manifolds. Assuming the domain manifolds poss some special exhaustion functions, we use these stress-energy tensors to establish some monotonicity formulae of the partial energies of pluriharmonic maps …
Study on harmonic maps in special geometric spaces.
problem Harmonic maps from rectifiable spaces into $\CAT(1)$ balls.
method Proving the existence and uniqueness of minimizers for energy function.
result Existence and uniqueness of minimizers for Korevaar-Schoen energy.
We apply our abstract gradient inequalities developed by the authors in arXiv:1510.03817 to prove Lojasiewicz--Simon gradient inequalities for the harmonic map energy function using Sobolev spaces which impose minimal regularity requirements on maps between closed, Riemannian manifolds. Our Lojasiewicz--Simon gradient …
Harmonic extension of Weil-Petersson circle homeomorphisms
problem Harmonic maps from the Weil-Petersson disk to the hyperbolic disk
method Anti-holomorphic L2-energy result Harmonic extension of Weil-Petersson circle homeomorphisms minimizes the L2-energy The paper bounds the energy index of harmonic Gauss maps on surfaces.
problem Bounding the energy index of harmonic Gauss maps on surfaces.
method Analyzes closed and complete non-compact surfaces in Lie groups with bi-invariant metrics.
result The energy index of the Gauss map is bounded by the topological genus.
New energy identity found for biharmonic maps into spheres.
problem Establishing energy identity for biharmonic maps in supercritical dimensions.
method Adapting Lin-Rivière's strategy for sphere-valued maps.
result Energy identity for stationary biharmonic maps into spheres in supercritical dimensions n≥5. Rectifies singular set of harmonic maps into complex.
problem Regularity of harmonic maps into complex manifolds.
method Proves (m−2)-rectifiability of singular set. result Singular set is (m−2)-rectifiable. A method to analyze maps into circles with singularities.
problem Analyzing maps with singularities into circles.
method Renormalization of Dirichlet Lagrangian for S1-harmonic maps. result Applications in Willmore energy and frame energies.
An ODE variational calculation shows that an image principle curvature ratio factor can raise the lower bound, 2(Image Area), on energy of a harmonic map of a surface into Rn. In certain situations, including all radially symmetry harmonic maps, equality is achieved.
The paper classifies biharmonic quadratic maps between spheres, proving their energy density properties.
problem Classifying non-harmonic biharmonic quadratic forms between spheres.
method Proving non-harmonic biharmonic quadratic forms have constant energy density and classifying them.
result Non-harmonic biharmonic quadratic forms have constant energy density (m+1)/2. Optimal Euclidean structure minimizes energy in weighted toroidal graphs.
problem Finding the optimal Euclidean structure for weighted toroidal graphs.
method Minimizing Dirichlet energy over all possible Euclidean structures and realizations within a fixed homotopy class.
result The optimal Euclidean structure induces a weighted Delaunay decomposition.
The paper studies harmonic maps to the circle with complex singular sets.
problem Finding harmonic maps with prescribed singular sets in higher-dimensional spaces.
method Considered variational relaxations of the problem, showing energy convergence to a renormalised volume plus lower-order interaction energy.
result The energy of minimisers converges, after renormalisation, to the volume of the singular set plus a lower-order interaction energy.
Method computes harmonic and conformal maps from point clouds.
problem Computing maps from irregular point cloud data.
method Meshless method using cubic lattice approximations.
result Harmonic and conformal maps computed accurately.
We show an energy convexity along any harmonic map heat flow with small initial energy and fixed boundary data on the unit 2-disk. In particular, this gives an affirmative answer to a question raised by W. Minicozzi asking whether such harmonic map heat flow converges uniformly in time strongly in the W^{1,2}-topology,…
The energy function associated to harmonic maps between surfaces is convex at critical points.
problem Proving convexity of the energy function for harmonic maps between surfaces.
method Analyzing the energy function on Teichmüller space and proving convexity at critical points.
result The energy function is convex at critical points and strictly convex under certain conditions.
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…
We construct a closed Riemannian manifold (N,h) and a sequence of α-harmonic maps from S2 into N with uniformly bounded energy such that the energy identity for this sequence is not true.
We study a new set of coupled field equations motivated by the non-linear supersymmetric sigma model of quantum field theory. These equations couple a map into a Riemannian manifold controlled by a harmonic map like action with a spinor field along that map. We study the solutions which we call Dirac-harmonic maps from…
The identity map of certain Einstein manifolds is stable in both energy and bienergy.
problem Stability of the identity map in Einstein manifolds.
method Investigation of conformal-biharmonic stability compared to harmonic stability.
result The conformal-biharmonic index coincides with the harmonic index, except for the 4D Euclidean sphere.
We will give a weak energy identity for Sacks-Uhlenbeck approximation of harmonic maps and calculate the length of the necks.
The paper proves an energy identity for harmonic maps near singularities.
problem Analyzing the behavior of harmonic maps near singular points.
method Analyzes sequences of stationary harmonic maps with bounded energy, proving an energy identity near singularities.
result The energy density of the defect measure is the sum of the energies of the bubbling maps.
Classifies low-energy harmonic maps from curved surfaces to spheres.
problem Classifying harmonic maps from curved surfaces to spheres under low energy conditions.
method Classifies maps via bubble scales and centers, focusing on degree-one maps as α approaches 1.
result Degree-one α-harmonic maps blow a bubble based at a critical point of a function J, which is the sum of squares of holomorphic one-forms. 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…