arXiv research

The paper splits manifolds using infinity harmonic functions with linear growth.

We propose a new notion called \emph{infinity-harmonic maps}between Riemannain manifolds. These are natural generalizations of the well known notion of infinity harmonic functions and are also the limiting case of $p$% -harmonic maps as $p\to \infty$. Infinity harmoncity appears in many familiar contexts. For example,…

Study on harmonic functions in spaces with collapsing behaviors.

The metric is quite singular at infinity and it is not complete. Using these expansions, we have a more precise description of the asymptotic behavior of quasi-harmonic functions and of eigenfunctions of drift-Laplacian at infinity.

Infinity-harmonic functions linked to IMCF clusters, revealing new properties in 2D.

Paper constructs multivalued harmonic functions on R^3 using twistor methods.

This paper develops a Carleman type estimate for immersed surface in Euclidean space at infinity. With this estimate, we obtain an unique continuation property for harmonic functions on immersed surfaces vanishing at infinity, which leads to rigidity results in geometry.

Study harmonic functions on submanifolds and their cones.

$\infty$-Harmonic maps are a generalization of $\infty$-harmonic functions. They can be viewed as the limiting cases of p-harmonic maps as p goes to infinity. In this paper, we give complete classifications of linear and quadratic $\infty$-harmonic maps from and into a sphere, quadratic $\infty$-harmonic maps between E…

Paper shows non-convexity in solutions to Hessian equations.

Estimates Poisson kernel on negatively curved Hadamard manifolds.

We proved two Three Circles Theorems for harmonic functions on manifolds in integral sense. As one application, on manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature, whose tangent cone at infinity is the unique metric cone with unique conic measure, we showed the existence of nonconstant harmonic functions with polynomial grow…

The study bounds harmonic functions on manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature.

The paper solves the Dirichlet problem at infinity and defines Poisson boundaries for certain manifolds.

The Martin boundary of a Cartan-Hadamard manifold describes a fine geometric structure at infinity, which is a sub-space of positive harmonic functions. We describe conditions which ensure that some points of the sphere at infinity belong to the Martin boundary as well. In the case of the universal cover of a compact m…

The paper studies critical points of horizontal energy functional in Riemannian foliations.

We prove several Liouville theorems for F-harmonic maps from some complete Riemannian manifolds by assuming some conditions on the Hessian of the distance function, the degrees of F(t) and the asymptotic behavior of the map at infinity. In particular, the results can be applied to F-harmonic maps from some pinched mani…

Asymptotically harmonic manifolds are simply connected complete Riemannian manifolds without conjugate points such that all horospheres have the same constant mean curvature $h$. In this article we present results for harmonic functions on rank one asymptotically harmonic manifolds $X$ with mild curvature boundedness c…

The paper proves energy theorems for specific initial data sets in 3D spacetime.

In the first part of the paper we derive integral curvature estimates for complete gradient shrinking Ricci solitons. Our results and the recent work of Lopez-Rio imply rigidity of gradient shrinking Ricci solitons with harmonic Weyl tensor. In the second part of the paper we address the issue of existence of harmonic …

New proof of harmonic map uniqueness with analytic targets.

The existence and nonexistence of $λ$-harmonic functions in unbounded domains of $\mathbb{H}^n$ are investigated. We prove that if the $(n-1)/2$ Hausdorff measure of the asymptotic boundary of a domain $Ω$ is zero, then there is no bounded $λ$-harmonic function of $Ω$ for $λ\in [0,λ_1(\mathbb{H}^n)]$, where $λ_1(\mathb…

The paper solves the Dirichlet problem at infinity for certain negatively curved 3-manifolds.

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…

Paper proves March's criterion for transience on symmetric manifolds.

We show that the Dirichlet problem at infinity is unsolvable for the p-Laplace equation for any nonconstant continuous boundary data, for certain range of p>n, on an n-dimensional Cartan-Hadamard manifold constructed from a complete noncompact shrinking gradient Ricci soliton. Using the steady gradient Ricci soliton, w…

Maps and measures on surfaces link best Lipschitz and least gradient functions.

This paper investigates analytic properties of maps between hyperbolic surfaces, focusing on best Lipschitz maps and geodesic laminations.

The purpose of this note is to study the connectedness at infinity of manifold by using the theory of $p$-harmonic functions. We show that if the first eigenvalue $λ_{1,p}$ for the $p$-Laplacian achievies its maximal value on a Kähler manifold or a quaternionic Kähler manifold then such a manifold must be connected at …

Generalizing the result of Li and Tam for the hyperbolic spaces, we prove an existence theorem on the Dirichlet problem for harmonic maps with $C^1$ boundary conditions at infinity between asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds.

To study the regularity of heat flow, Lin-Wang[1] introduced the quasi-harmonic sphere, which is a harmonic map from $M=(\mathbb{R}^m,e^{-\frac{|x|^2}{2(m-2)}}ds_0^2)$ to $N$ with finite energy. Here $ds_0^2$ is Euclidean metric in $\mathbb{R}^m$. Ding-Zhao [2] showed that if the target is a sphere, any equivariant qua…

We obtain a topological interpretation for the space of $L^2$ harmonic forms for some complete Riemannian manifold : when the geometry at infinity is the geometry of a simply connected nilpotent Lie group, when the geometry at infinity is a symmetric space with non positive curvature and also when the geometry at infin…

We describe the relationship between complex-valued harmonic morphisms from Minkowski 4-space} and the shear-free ray congruences of mathematical physics. Then we show how a horizontally conformal submersion on a domain of Euclidean 3-space gives the boundary values at infinity of a complex-valued harmonic morphism on …

Harmonic maps from hyperbolic planes to hyperbolic space exist with given boundary data.

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,…

Defines a new quasi-local mass related to spacetime harmonic functions.

We prove polynomial and exponential decay at infinity of eigen-vectors of partial differential operators related to radiation problems for time-harmonic generalized Maxwell systems in an exterior domain with non-smooth inhomogeneous, anisotropic coefficients converging near infinity with a certain rate towards the iden…

Solves Dirichlet problem for harmonic maps to give geodesic insights.

Develops calculus for QFB metrics, proving Fredholm properties and decay of harmonic forms.

The paper extends a Liouville theorem to biharmonic functions on manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature.

We study both function theoretic and spectral properties on complete noncompact smooth metric measure space $(M,g,e^{-f}dv)$ with nonnegative Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature. Among other things, we derive a gradient estimate for positive $f$-harmonic functions and obtain as a consequence the strong Liouville property under…

In this talk, I will discuss the use of harmonic functions to study the geometry and topology of complete manifolds. In my previous joint work with Luen-fai Tam, we discovered that the number of infinities of a complete manifold can be estimated by the dimension of a certain space of harmonic functions. Applying this t…

We discuss the radiation problem of total reflection for a time-harmonic generalized Maxwell system in a non-smooth exterior domain with non-smooth inhomogeneous, anisotropic coefficients converging near infinity with a certain rate towards the identity. By means of the limiting absorption principle, a Fredholm alterna…

Treebolic space HT(q,p) is a key example of a strip complex in the sense of Bendikov, Saloff-Coste, Salvatori, and Woess [Adv. Math. 226 (2011), 992-1055]. It is an analog of the Sol geometry, namely, it is a horocylic product of the hyperbolic upper half plane with a "stretching" parameter q and the homogeneous tree T…

Maps between Hadamard manifolds are quasi-isometric to harmonic maps.

We show that two properly embedded self-shrinkers in Euclidean space that are sufficiently separated at infinity must intersect at a finite point. The proof is based on a localized version of the Reilly formula applied to a suitable f-harmonic function with controlled gradient. In the immersed case, a new direct proof …

Study shows how weak inverse anisotropic mean curvature flow behaves at infinity.

The paper studies geometric properties of $Φ_{(3)}$-harmonic maps and proves Liouville type results.