Harmonic Riemannian maps on locally conformal Kaehler manifolds

We study harmonic Riemannian maps on locally conformal Kaehler manifolds (lcK manifolds). We show that if a Riemannian holomorphic map between lcK manifolds is harmonic, then the Lee vector field of the domain belongs to the kernel of the Riemannian map under a condition. When the domain is Kaehler, we prove that a Riemannian holomorphic map is harmonic if and only if the lcK manifold is Kaehler. Then we find similar results for Riemannian maps between lcK manifolds and Sasakian manifolds. Finally, we check the constancy of some maps between almost complex (or almost contact) manifolds and almost product manifolds.     

Jacobi Fields Along Harmonic 2-Spheres in CP2 are Integrable

The paper shows that any Jacobi field along a harmonic map fromthe 2-sphere to the complex projective plane is integrable (thatis, is tangent to a smooth variation through harmonic maps).This provides one of the few known answers to the problem ofintegrability, which was raised in different contexts of geometryand analysis. It implies that the Jacobi fields form the tangentbundle to each component of the manifold of harmonic maps fromS² to CP² thus giving the nullity of any such harmonic map;it also has a bearing on the behaviour of weakly harmonic E-minimizingmaps from a 3-manifold to CP² near a singularity and the structureof the singular set of such maps from any manifold to CP².     

Asymptotics of the Teichmüller harmonic map flow

The Teichmüller harmonic map flow, introduced by Rupflin and Topping (2012)  [11], 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 holomorphic quadratic differentials in order to explain what happens in the case that the domain metric of the flow degenerates at infinite time. We obtain a branched minimal immersion from the degenerate domain.     

A global weak solution to the Lorentzian harmonic map flow

We investigate a parabolic-elliptic system which is related to a harmonic map from a compact Riemann surface with a smooth boundary into a Lorentzian manifold with a warped product metric.We prove that there exists a unique global weak solution for this system which is regular except for at most finitely many singular points.     

A Liouville-type theorem for biharmonic maps between complete Riemannian manifolds with small energies

We prove a Liouville-type theorem for biharmonic maps from a complete Riemannian manifold of dimension \(n\) that has a lower bound on its Ricci curvature and positive injectivity radius into a Riemannian manifold whose sectional curvature is bounded from above. Under these geometric assumptions we show that if the \(L^p\)-norm of the tension field is bounded and the n-energy of the map is sufficiently small, then every biharmonic map must be harmonic, where \(2<p<n\).     

Harmonic morphisms as unit normal bundles¶of minimal surfaces

Let be an isometric immersion between Riemannian manifolds and be the unit normal bundle of f. We discuss two natural Riemannian metrics on the total space and necessary and sufficient conditions on f for the projection map to be a harmonic morphism. We show that the projection map of the unit normal bundle of a minimal surface in a Riemannian manifold is a harmonic morphism with totally geodesic fibres. Received: 6 February 1999     

RC-positivity and rigidity of harmonic maps into Riemannian manifolds Dedicated to Professor Lo Yang on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday

In this paper,we show that every harmonic map from a compact K?hler manifold with uniformly RC-positive curvature to a Riemannian manifold with non-positive complex sectional curvature is constant.In particular,there is no non-constant harmonic map from a compact Koahler manifold with positive holomorphic sectional curvature to a Riemannian manifold with non-positive complex sectional curvature.     

Harmonic maps from Kähler manifolds

Some Liouville type theorems for harmonic maps from Kähler manifolds are obtained. The main result is to prove that a harmonic map from a bounded symmetric domain (exceptR _IV(2)) to any Riemannian manifold with finite energy has to be constant.     

A note on non-univalent harmonic maps between surfaces

We show that a decomposition theorem of Duren-Hengartner about planar harmonic maps can be generalized to give a necessary and sufficient condition for a harmonic map between smooth surfaces to be decomposable as a holomorphic map followed by a univalent harmonic embedding.

     

The existence of harmonic maps from Finsler manifolds of Riemannian manifolds

In this paper,we consider the existence of harmonic maps from a Finsler manifold and study the characterisation of harmonic maps,in the spirit of Ishihara.Using heat quation method we show that any map from a compact Finsler manifold M to a compact Riemannian manifold with non-positive sectional curvature can be deformed into a harmonic map which has minimum energy in its homotopy class.     

Regularity for the approximated harmonic map equation and application to the heat flow for harmonic maps

Let be open and a smooth, compact Riemannian manifold without boundary. We consider the approximated harmonic map equation for maps , where . For , we prove H?lder continuity for weak solution s which satisfy a certain smallness condition. For , we derive an energy estimate which allows to prove partial regularity for stationary solutions of the heat flow for harmonic maps in dimension . Received: 7 May 2001; / in final form: 22 February 2002 Published online: 2 December 2002     

Weak density of smooth maps for the Dirichlet energy between manifolds

We prove that given a simply connected compact manifold M and a closed manifold N, any map in the Sobolev space W ^1,2(M,N) can be approximated weakly by smooth maps between M and N. Submitted: September 2002, Final version: November 2002.     

A Böchner technique for harmonic mappings from a 3-manifold to a surface

Let be a harmonic mapping from a Riemannian 3-manifold to a Riemannian 2-manifold. A smooth function on M is associated to , derived from the eigenvalues of the first fundamental form, the vanishing of which is equivalent to being a harmonic morphism. The Laplacian of this function is computed and a maximum principle applied to derive criteria when a harmonic map must be a harmonic morphism.     

The heat flow and harmonic maps between complete manifolds

We consider the existence, uniqueness and convergence for the long time solution to the harmonic map heat equation between two complete noncompact Riemannian manifolds, where the target manifold is assumed to have nonpositive curvature. As an application, we solve the Dirichlet problem at infinity for proper harmonic maps between two hyperbolic manifolds for a class of boundary maps. The boundary map under consideration has finite many points at which either it is not differentiable or has vanishing energy density.     

Unique solvability of the Dirichlet problem¶for weakly harmonic maps

We prove existence and uniqueness of weakly harmonic maps from the unit ball in ℝ ⁿ (with n≥ 3) to a smooth compact target manifold within the class of maps with small scaled energy for suitable boundary data. Received: 9 June 2000 / Revised version: 17 April 2001     

AN NONEXISTENCE THEOREM FOR HARMONIC MAPS WITH SLOWLY DIVERGENT ENERGY

It is proved that a harmonic map or a relative harmonic map from Euclidean space $\[{R^n}(n \ne 2)\]$ into an m-dimensional Riemannian manifold $\[{M_m}\]$ with finite energy or slowly divergent energy must be a constant map. Some physical applications are also presented.     

Hyper-Lagrangian submanifolds of Hyperkähler manifolds and mean curvature flow

In this article, we define a new class of middle dimensional submanifolds of a Hyperkähler manifold which contains the class of complex Lagrangian submanifolds, and show that this larger class is invariant under the mean curvature flow. Along the flow, the complex phase map satisfies the generalized harmonic map heat equation. It is also related to the mean curvature vector via a first order differential equation. Moreover, we proved a result on nonexistence of Type I singularity.     

Asymptotic Boundary Value Problem of Harmonic Maps via Harmonic Boundary

We prove that given any continuous data f on the harmonic boundary of a complete Riemannian manifold with image within a ball in the normal range, there exists a harmonic map from the manifold into the ball taking the same boundary value at each harmonic boundary point as that of f.     

Harmonic map heat flow with free boundary

In this paper, we study the harmonic map heat flow with free boundary from a Riemannian surface with smooth boundary into a compact Riemannian manifold. As a consequence, we get at least one disk-type minimal surface in a compact Riemannian manifold without minimal 2-sphere.     

Instability in a geometric parabolic equation on convex domain instability on convex domain

We prove that any non-constant smooth static solution to a geometric parabolic system is unstable, provided that the domain is convex. As the important applications, we shall consider the Landau-Lifshitz equation and the heat flow for harmonic map.