Study heat flow for half-harmonic maps and harmonic maps with free boundary.
problem Integrability and regularity of half-harmonic maps and harmonic maps with free boundary.
method Introduced a heat flow associated to half-harmonic maps and constructed weak solutions via Ginzburg-Landau approximation.
result Proved partial regularity of weak solutions in space and time.
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
New rigidity estimate derived via harmonic map flow.
problem Rigidity of maps from S2 to S2. method Harmonic map flow approach.
result Rigidity estimate derived.
The Liouville theorem is proven for V T-harmonic map heat flow.
problem Proving Liouville theorems for V T-harmonic maps.
method Analyzing heat flow on manifolds with specific properties.
result Liouville theorems established for V T-harmonic maps.
Study proves existence of non-trivial harmonic map flows to hemispheres.
problem Existence of non-trivial harmonic map flows to hemispheres.
method Construction of infinitely many weak solutions to harmonic map flow starting from non-minimizing but stationary maps.
result Proves existence of non-trivial self-expanding harmonic map flows to hemispheres.
Paper studies heat flow for maps on manifolds, avoiding singularities.
problem Avoiding singularities in heat flow for maps on manifolds.
method Introduces regularized conformal heat flow for n-harmonic maps. result Regularized n-conformal heat flow does not develop finite time singularities. Exponential rate of convergence for harmonic heat flow maps.
problem Analyzing the convergence rate of harmonic heat flow maps.
method Proving exponential convergence rate for harmonic heat flow maps.
result Exponential convergence rate of the harmonic heat flow.
Harmonic map flow preserves almost-holomorphic maps without singularities.
problem Preserving almost-holomorphic maps without singularities.
method Harmonic map flow applied to almost-holomorphic maps.
result No singularities or necks appear in the limit at singular times.
Global existence and convergence of heat flow for p-harmonic maps.
problem Global existence and convergence of heat flow for p-harmonic maps between manifolds.
method Analysis of heat flow equations for p-harmonic maps.
result Global existence and convergence of heat flow for p-harmonic maps under certain conditions.
Study proves short-term existence for harmonic maps under evolving metrics.
problem Analyzing harmonic maps under time-dependent metrics.
method Proves short-term existence for harmonic map heat flow coupled with a smooth family of complete metrics.
result Generalizes short-term existence results for harmonic map heat flow.
Strict type-II blowup in harmonic map flow is proven to have Hölder continuous body map.
problem Finite-time singularity of harmonic map flow.
method Analysis of outer energy scale and Hölder continuity proof.
result Strictly type-II blowup body map is Hölder continuous.
The paper studies harmonic map flows and proves rectifiability of singular sets.
problem Understanding the structure of singular sets in harmonic map flows.
method Investigates the stratification theory for suitable solutions using tangent measures.
result Each time slice of the singular set is rectifiable.
Paper studies heat flow for VT harmonic maps on compact manifolds.
problem Existence of VT harmonic maps and geodesics on compact manifolds.
method Heat flow method to solve Dirichlet problem and existence of geodesics.
result Existence of VT harmonic maps and geodesics under certain conditions.
New approach to heat flow for half-harmonic maps, related to minimal surfaces.
problem Heat flow for half-harmonic maps from S1 to closed target manifolds. method Classical approach using Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator for the Laplace equation.
result Analogous results to 1985 harmonic map heat flow, valid for finite-energy data.
Paper shows no finite time singularities for smooth conformal heat flow of harmonic maps.
problem Smoothness of conformal heat flow of harmonic maps.
method Combines harmonic map flow with metric evolution in conformal direction.
result No finite time singularity occurs for the flow, and under certain conditions, maps converge to a point.
Study connects landslide flow to integrable systems for harmonic maps.
problem Understanding the holonomy of complex landslide flow.
method Integrable systems approach to harmonic maps into symmetric spaces.
result Holonomy of complex landslide flow derived from harmonic map holonomy.
Harmonic maps from complex plane to hyperbolic space constructed using heat flow.
problem Constructing harmonic maps from complex plane to hyperbolic space.
method Heat flow method to construct harmonic maps.
result Harmonic maps are unique once the principal part of their Hopf differential is prescribed.
Harmonic map flow's singularity properties proven with Lojasiewicz inequalities.
problem Finite-time singularities of harmonic map flow in critical dimensions.
method Proving a weighted Lojasiewicz inequality.
result Continuity of body map and no-neck property for bubble-tree decompositions.
The heat flow for Dirac-harmonic maps on Riemannian spin manifolds is a modification of the classical heat flow for harmonic maps by coupling it to a spinor. It was introduced by Chen, Jost, Sun, and Zhu as a tool to get a general existence program for Dirac-harmonic maps. For source manifolds with boundary they obtain…
Study Liouville theorems for harmonic maps along ancient super Ricci flows.
problem Proving Liouville theorems for harmonic maps under specific geometric conditions.
method Using Perelman's reduced geometric viewpoint, derive Liouville theorems with controlled growth.
result Sharp growth conditions and new Liouville theorems for both non-positively and positively curved target spaces.
In this work we study properties of stability and non-stability of harmonic maps under the homogeneous Ricci flow. We provide examples where the stability (non-stability) is preserved under the Ricci flow and an example where the Ricci flow does not preserve the stability of an harmonic map.
In this paper we study the Teichmüller harmonic map flow as introduced by Rupflin and Topping [15]. It evolves pairs of maps and metrics (u,g) into branched minimal immersions, or equivalently into weakly conformal harmonic maps, where u maps from a fixed closed surface M with metric g to a general target manif…
Paper studies Laplace operator estimates in harmonic map heat flows.
problem Estimating Laplace operator in harmonic map heat flows outside singularities.
method Investigates estimates using spherical coordinates for T2 and T3 boundary conditions. result Provides higher-order estimates for the Ericksen--Leslie system.
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,…
Improved Liouville theorems for ancient solutions to V-harmonic map heat flows.
problem Establishing Liouville theorems for ancient solutions to V-harmonic map heat flows.
method Refined gradient estimates and exponential growth conditions.
result Better Liouville theorems for ancient solutions to V-harmonic map heat flows.
The paper proves short-time existence of α-Dirac-harmonic map flow and applications.
problem Existence of α-Dirac-harmonic maps from closed surfaces. method Heat flow for α-Dirac-harmonic maps, blow-up analysis, density of maps with minimal kernel. result Existence of nontrivial α-Dirac-harmonic maps (α≥1) from closed surfaces. New heat flow for harmonic maps avoids singularities but not bubbles.
problem Finite time singularities in harmonic maps.
method Introduces a conformal heat flow for harmonic maps defined by an evolution equation.
result Global weak solution exists, smooth except at most finitely many points.
We analyse finite-time singularities of the Teichmüller harmonic map flow -- a natural gradient flow of the harmonic map energy -- and find a canonical way of flowing beyond them in order to construct global solutions in full generality. Moreover, we prove a no-loss-of-topology result at finite time, which completes th…
Lipschitz regularity proved for harmonic map heat flows into CAT(0) spaces.
problem Proving Lipschitz regularity for harmonic map heat flows into CAT(0) spaces.
method Elliptic approximation method
result Every weak solution of the harmonic map heat flow into CAT(0) spaces is Lipschitz continuous in both space and time.
The paper studies harmonic map heat flow stability and decay rates.
problem Analyzing stability and decay rates of harmonic map heat flow solutions.
method Use of homogeneous Besov space B˙p,∞pd(Rd) for small initial data and self-similar decay assumption. result Decay rates for solutions of the harmonic map flow of the form ∥ablau(t)∥L∞(Rd)≤Ct−21 and self-similar decay under stronger initial conditions. In this paper, we investigate the Gauss maps of a Ricci-mean curvature flow. A Ricci-mean curvature flow is a coupled equation of a mean curvature flow and a Ricci flow on the ambient manifold. Ruh and Vilms proved that the Gauss map of a minimal submanifold in a Euclidean space is a harmonic map, and Wang extended thi…
Continuous time analysis of bubble formation in harmonic maps.
problem Understanding bubble formation in harmonic map heat flow.
method Continuous time approach to analyze bubbling sequences.
result Solutions approach multi-bubble configurations in continuous time.
Flow maps into minimal surfaces with free boundary.
problem Mapping surfaces into minimal submanifolds with free boundary.
method Combining Plateau-flow and Teichmüller harmonic flow to achieve half-harmonic maps.
result Flow produces a branched minimal immersion as time tends to infinity.
Researchers find stable solutions for heat map flow in higher dimensions.
problem Stability of shrinkers for harmonic map heat flow in higher dimensions.
method Construction of specific target manifolds allowing for stable shrinkers.
result Existence of corotational self-similar shrinkers representing stable blowup mechanisms.
We study the harmonic map equations for maps of a Riemann surface into a Riemannian symmetric space of compact type from the point of view of soliton theory. There is a well-known dressing action of a loop group on the space of harmonic maps and we discuss the orbits of this action through particularly simple harmonic …
New theorem on flat tori stability using harmonic maps and Ricci flow.
problem Stability of flat tori under Ricci and scalar curvature bounds.
method Harmonic map heat flow, Ricci flow, and RCD theories.
result Gromov-Hausdorff stability theorem for flat 3-tori.
In this paper, the author discusses the eigenvalues and entropies under the harmonic-Ricci flow, which is the Ricci flow coupled with the harmonic map flow. We give an alternative proof of results for compact steady and expanding harmonic-Ricci breathers. In the second part, we derive some monotonicity formulas for eig…
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 …
We first prove stochastic representation formulae for space-time harmonic mappings defined on manifolds with evolving Riemannian metric. We then apply these formulae to derive Liouville type theorems under appropriate curvature conditions. Space-time harmonic mappings which are defined globally in time correspond to an…
In this paper, we consider critical maps of a horizontal energy functional for maps from a sub-Riemannian manifold to a Riemannian manifold. These critical maps are referred to as subelliptic harmonic maps. In terms of the subelliptic harmonic map heat flow, we investigate the existence problem for subelliptic harmonic…
Inspired by work of Colding-Minicozzi on mean curvature flow, Zhang introduced a notion of entropy stability for harmonic map flow. We build further upon this work in several directions. First we prove the equivalence of entropy stability with a more computationally tractable F-stability. Then, focusing on t…
Study shows Ricci flow's convergence and harmonic map heat flow's long-time existence.
problem Analyzing convergence of Ricci flow and harmonic map heat flow.
method Established long-time existence of harmonic map heat flow between Ricci flow and shrinker.
result Ricci flow converges exponentially to compact integrable shrinkers and at singularities modelled on the shrinker.
The Teichmüller harmonic map flow, introduced in [9], evolves both a map from a closed Riemann surface to an arbitrary compact Riemannian manifold, and a constant curvature metric on the domain, in order to reduce its harmonic map energy as quickly as possible. In this paper, we develop the geometric analysis of holomo…
New rigidity result for maps between curved spaces.
problem Rigidity of contracting maps between curved manifolds.
method New long-time existence of harmonic map heat flow.
result Distance non-increasing maps are either submersion or isometry under certain conditions.
Paper studies smoothness of bi-conformal heat flow on 4-manifolds.
problem Smoothness of bi-conformal heat flow on 4-manifolds.
method Introduces bi-conformal heat flow (bi-CHF) and proves global smoothness without finite time singularities.
result Global smoothness and no finite time singularity for bi-conformal heat flow.
We show that the set of harmonic maps from the 2-dimensional stratified spheres with uniformly bounded energies contains only finitely many homotopy classes. We apply this result to construct infinitely many harmonic map flows and mean curvature flows of 2-sphere in the connected sum of two closed 3-dimensional manifol…
Harmonic maps link Teichmüller spaces to framed representations.
problem Connecting Teichmüller spaces with framed representations.
method Uses harmonic map heat flow to find unique maps.
result Unique harmonic maps exist under specified conditions.
Proves rigidity of maps between manifolds with scalar curvature constraints.
problem Lipschitz rigidity problem in scalar curvature geometry.
method Harmonic map heat flow coupled with Ricci flow.
result Continuous maps between manifolds with scalar curvature constraints are either isometries or have scalar curvature strictly less than the sphere.