Compactification of moduli space of harmonic mappings

We introduce the notion of harmonic nodal maps from the stratified Riemann surfaces into any compact Riemannian manifolds and prove that the space of the energy minimizing nodal maps is sequentially compact. We also give an existence result for the energy minimizing nodal maps. As an application, we obtain a general existence theorem for minimal surfaces with arbitrary genus in any compact Riemannian manifolds. Received: 1 April 1997; revised: 15 April 1998.     

Locally Minimizing Smooth Harmonic Maps from Asymptotically at Manifolds into Spheres

By minimizing the so-called relative energy, we show that there exists a family of locally minimizing smooth harmonic maps from asymptotically flat manifolds into the standard sphere.     

The Manifold-Valued Dirichlet Problem for Symmetric Diffusions

Harmonic maps between two Riemannian manifolds M and N are often constructed as energy minimizing maps. This construction is extended for the Dirichlet problem to the case where the Riemannian energy functional on M is replaced by a more general Dirichlet form. We obtain weakly harmonic maps and prove that these maps send the diffusion to N-valued martingales. The basic tools are the reflected Dirichlet space and the stochastic calculus for Dirichlet processes.     

Locally minimizing harmonic maps from noncompact manifolds

By introducing the “relative energy”, we develop a new method for finding harmonic maps from noncompact complete Riemannian manifolds with prescribed asympototic behaviour at infinity. This method is an extension of the well known direct method of energy-minimization for compact domains. As an application of our method, we show that the Dirichlet problem at infinity with Hölder continuous boundary data for harmonic maps from a Cartan-Hadarmard manifold with bounded negative curvature into a compact manifold, has a locally minimizing solution which is smooth near infinity.     

Variational analysis of a perturbed free boundary problem

We consider maps u:X→Y of Riemannian manifolds which are locally energy minimizing subject to a constraint of the form Im(u) where M denotes a smooth bounded domain contained in a regular ball B of the target manifold. In general local minima are regular up to a set of vanishing Hausdorff measure, here we show for star-shaped obstacles M singular points can be exluded.     

p-Harmonic obstacle problems

Summary We develop an interior partial regularity theory for vector valued Sobolev functions which locally minimize degenerate variational integrals under the additional side condition that all comparison maps take their values in the closure of a smooth region of the target space. Our results apply to the case of penergy minimizing mappings X Y between Riemannian manifolds including target manifolds Y with nonvoid boundary.     

Mass transportation on sub-Riemannian structures of rank two in dimension four

This paper is concerned with the study of the Monge optimal transport problem in sub-Riemannian manifolds where the cost is given by the square of the sub-Riemannian distance. Our aim is to extend previous results on existence and uniqueness of optimal transport maps to cases of sub-Riemannian structures which admit many singular minimizing geodesics. We treat here the case of sub-Riemannian structures of rank two in dimension four.     

Rotationally symmetric symphonic maps

Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry - We consider a functional of pullbacks of metrics on the space of maps f between Riemannian manifolds. Harmonic maps are stationary points of the energy...     

带自由边界调和映射的Liouville型定理

本文给出一类带由边界的调和映射的Liouville型定理,这种类型的定理在微分几何的一些问题中有十分重要的应用.我们通过对调和映射的能量选取特殊的变分族,得到任意从半空间的简单流形到一黎曼流形的带自由边界的调和映射在如果满足适当的条件(见定理)必为常值映射的结果.     

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.     

Bending and stretching unit vector fields in Euclidean and hyperbolic 3-space

We discuss Morse inequalities for homotopic critical maps of the energy functional with a potential term. For a generic potential this gives a lower bound on the number of homotopic critical maps in terms of the Betti numbers of the moduli space of harmonic maps. Other applications include sharp existence results for maps with prescribed tension field and pseudo-harmonic maps. Our hypotheses are that the domain and target manifolds are closed and the latter has non-positive sectional curvature.      

Quaternionic maps between quaternionic Kähler manifolds

In this paper, we consider quaternionic maps between quaternionic Kähler manifolds. We will derive a monotonicity inequality, a Böchner type formula and small energy regularity for quaternionic maps.The author was supported by NSF in China, No.10201028.     

Pseudo-harmonic maps from closed pseudo-Hermitian manifolds to Riemannian manifolds with nonpositive sectional curvature

In this paper, we use heat flow method to prove the existence of pseudo-harmonic maps from closed pseudo-Hermitian manifolds to Riemannian manifolds with nonpositive sectional curvature, which is a generalization of Eells–Sampson’s existence theorem. Furthermore, when the target manifold has negative sectional curvature, we analyze horizontal energy of geometric homotopy of two pseudo-harmonic maps and obtain that if the image of a pseudo-harmonic map is neither a point nor a closed geodesic, then it is the unique pseudo-harmonic map in the given homotopic class. This is a generalization of Hartman’s theorem.     

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.     

Harmonic Maps from Complete Noncompact Manifolds

ln this paper we prove some general existence theorems of harmonic maps from complete noncompact manifolds with tho positive lower bounds of spectrum into convex balls. We solve the Dirichlet problem in classical domains and some special complete noncompact manifolds for harmonic maps into convex balls. We also study the existence of harmonic maps from some special complete noncompact manifolds into complete manifolds with nonpositive sectional curvature which are not simply connected.     

A partial regularity result for harmonic maps into a Finsler manifold

In this paper, we consider the energy of maps from an Euclidean space into a Finsler space and study the partial regularity of energy minimizing maps. We show that the -dimensional Hausdorff measure of the singular set of every energy minimizing map is 0 for some , when m=3,4. Received: 6 June 2001 / Accepted: 10 July 2001 / Published online: 12 October 2001     

Harmonic maps with torsion

In this article we introduce a natural extension of the well-studied equation for harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds by assuming that the target manifold is equipped with a connection that is metric but has non-vanishing torsion. Such connections have already been classified in the work of Cartan(1924).The maps under consideration do not arise as critical points of an energy functional leading to interesting mathematical challenges. We will perform a first mathematical analysis of these maps which we will call harmonic maps with torsion.     

Results of Liouville type for symphonic maps

We consider a functional of pullbacks of metrics on the space of maps between Riemannian manifolds. Stationary maps for this functional are called symphonic maps ([4], [5]). In this paper we show that any symphonic map is a constant map under some curvature conditions and the finiteness of the symphonic energy.     

The stability of domain and the pinching of energy about harmonic maps

In this paper, we establish a sharp inequality of the gradient of energy density. We use it in studying stability of domain and pinching of energy. And we get the sharp conclusion respectly. In addition, we connect the existence of non-constant totally geodesic maps with the construction of manifolds on topology and geometry.     

Second variation of harmonic maps between Finsler manifolds

The first and second variation formulas of the energy functional for a nonde-generate map between Finsler manifolds is derived. As an application, some nonexistence theorems of nonconstant stable harmonic maps from a Finsler manifold to a Riemannian manifold are given.