Partial regularity of energy minimizing harmonic maps into a complete manifold

In this paper, we study energy minimizing harmonic maps into a complete Riemannian manifold. We prove that the singular set of such a map has Hausdorff dimension at mostn–2, wheren is the dimension of the domain. We will also give an example of an energy minimizing map from surface to surface that has a singular point. Thus then–2 dimension estimate is optimal, in contrast to then–3 dimension estimate of Schoen-Uhlenbeck [SU] for compact targets.