Blow-up analysis for approximate Dirac-harmonic maps in dimension 2 with applications to the Dirac-harmonic heat flow

Dirac-harmonic maps couple a second order harmonic map type system with a first nonlinear Dirac equation. We consider approximate Dirac-harmonic maps \(\{(\phi _n,\psi _n)\}\), that is, maps that satisfy the Dirac-harmonic system up to controlled error terms. We show that such approximate Dirac-harmonic maps defined on a Riemann surface, that is, in dimension 2, continue to satisfy the basic properties of blow-up analysis like the energy identity and the no neck property. The assumptions are such that they hold for solutions of the heat flow of Dirac-harmonic maps. That flow turns the harmonic map type system into a parabolic system, but simply keeps the Dirac equation as a nonlinear first order constraint along the flow. As a corollary of the main result of this paper, when such a flow blows up at infinite time at interior points, we obtain an energy identity and the no neck property.     

Dirac-harmonic maps from index theory

We prove existence results for Dirac-harmonic maps using index theoretical tools. They are mainly interesting if the source manifold has dimension 1 or 2 modulo 8. Our solutions are uncoupled in the sense that the underlying map between the source and target manifolds is a harmonic map.     

On weakly harmonic maps from Finsler to Riemannian manifolds

We prove global C0,α$C^{0,\alpha }$-estimates for harmonic maps from Finsler manifolds into regular balls of Riemannian target manifolds generalizing results of Giaquinta, Hildebrandt, and Hildebrandt, Jost and Widman from Riemannian to Finsler domains. As consequences we obtain a Liouville theorem for entire harmonic maps on simple Finsler manifolds, and an existence theorem for harmonic maps from Finsler manifolds into regular balls of a Riemannian target.     

The maximum principle and the Dirichlet problem for Dirac-harmonic maps

We establish a maximum principle and uniqueness for Dirac-harmonic maps from a Riemannian spin manifold with boundary into a regular ball in any Riemannian manifold N. Then we prove an existence theorem for a boundary value problem for Dirac-harmonic maps.     

Nonlinear Markov operators associated with symmetric Markov kernels and energy minimizing maps between singular spaces

We present a theory of harmonic maps where the target is a complete geodesic space (N,d) of nonpositive curvature in the sense of A. D. Alexandrov and the domain is a measure space with a symmetric Markov kernel p on it. Our theory is a nonlinear generalization of the theory of symmetric Markov kernels and reversible Markov chains on M. It can also be regarded as a particular case of the theory of generalized (= nonlinear) Dirichlet forms and energy minimizing maps between singular spaces, initiated by Jost (1994) and Korevaar, Schoen (1993) and developed further by Jost (1997a), (1998) and Sturm (1997). We investigate the discrete and continuous time heat flow generated by p and show that various properties of the linear heat flow carry over to this nonlinear heat flow. In particular, we study harmonic maps, i.e. maps which are invariant under the heat flow. These maps are identified with the minimizers of the energy. Received April 2, 2000 / Accepted May 9, 2000 /Published online November 9, 2000     

Heat flow of harmonic maps from noncompact manifolds

The global existence of the heat flow for harmonic maps from noncompact manifolds is considered. When L^m norm of the gradient of initial data is small, the existence of a global solution is proved.     

THE HEAT FLOWOF HARMONIC MAPS FROM NONCOMPACT MANIFOLDS

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The Cauchy problem of Lorentzian minimal surfaces in globally hyperbolic manifolds

In this note a proof is given for global existence and uniqueness of minimal Lorentzian surface maps from a cylinder into a large class of globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds for given initial values up to the first derivatives. The results of this article are part of my PhD thesis written at the Max-Planck institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig under the supervision of Prof. Jürgen Jost to whom I want to express my gratitude.     

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.     

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.     

Ricci-Bourguignon Flow on Manifolds with Boundary

The authors consider the short time existence for Ricci-Bourguignon flow on manifolds with boundary. If the initial metric has constant mean curvature and satisfies some compatibility conditions, they show the short time existence of the Ricci-Bourguignon flow with constant mean curvature on the boundary.     

The qualitative behavior for approximate Dirac-harmonic maps into stationary Lorentzian manifolds

For a sequence of approximate Dirac-harmonic maps from a closed spin Riemann surface into a stationary Lorentzian manifold with uniformly bounded energy, we study the blow-up analysis and show that the Lorentzian energy identity holds. Moreover, when the targets are static Lorentzian manifolds, we prove the positive energy identity and the no neck property.

     

Analytic invariant manifolds for sequences of diffeomorphisms

We obtain real analytic invariant manifolds for trajectories of maps assuming only the existence of a nonuniform exponential behavior. We also consider the more general case of sequences of maps, which corresponds to a nonautonomous dynamics with discrete time. We emphasize that the maps that we consider are defined in a real Euclidean space, and thus, one is not able to obtain the invariant manifolds from a corresponding procedure to that in the nonuniform hyperbolicity theory in the context of holomorphic dynamics. We establish the existence both of stable (and unstable) manifolds and of center manifolds. As a byproduct of our approach we obtain an exponential control not only for the trajectories on the invariant manifolds, but also for all their derivatives.     

The mean curvature flow in Minkowski spaces

Studying the geometric flow plays a powerful role in mathematics and physics. In this paper, we introduce the mean curvature flow on Finsler manifolds and give a number of examples of the mean curvature flow. For Minkowski spaces, a special case of Finsler manifolds, we prove the short time existence and uniqueness for solutions of the mean curvature flow and prove that the flow preserves the convexity and mean convexity. We also derive some comparison principles for the mean curvature flow.     

Complete submanifolds in manifolds of partially non-negative curvature

We prove that a complete non-compact submanifold in a complete manifold of partially non-negative sectional curvature has only one end if the Sobolev inequality holds on it and if its total curvature is not very big by showing a Liouville theorem for harmonic maps and by using a existence theorem of constant harmonic functions with finite energy. We also generalize a result by Cao–Shen–Zhu saying that a complete orientable stable minimal hypersurface in a Euclidean space has only one end to submanifolds in manifolds of partially non-negative sectional curvature. Some related results about the structure of the same kind of submanifolds are also obtained.     

Heat Flows of Subelliptic Harmonic Maps into Riemannian Manifolds with Nonpositive Curvatures

In this paper, we discuss the heat flows of subelliptic harmonic maps into Riemannian manifolds with nonpositive curvatures, and prove the homotopic existence which is a generalization of the Eells–Sampson theorem.     

Evolution of harmonic maps on manifolds flat at infinity

The aim of this article is to prove a global existence result with small data for the heat flow for harmonic maps from a manifold flat at infinity into a compact manifold. By flat at infinity we mean that the growth rate of the volumes of the balls on the manifold is the same as in the flat space. This is true for any manifold for small enough radius, but is in general not true when the radius of the ball grows. So prescribing such a growth rate also at infinity selects a class of manifolds on which our result holds. In this setting estimates are available for the heat kernel and its gradient on the base manifold. From such estimates it is easy to get L ^p −L ^q bounds for the heat kernel. A contraction principle argument then yields a local existence result in a suitable Sobolev space and a global existence result for small data.     

Mapping properties of the heat operator on edge manifolds

We consider the heat operator acting on differential forms on spaces with complete and incomplete edge metrics. In the latter case we study the heat operator of the Hodge Laplacian with algebraic boundary conditions at the edge singularity. We establish the mapping properties of the heat operator, recovering and extending the classical results from smooth manifolds and conical spaces. The estimates, together with strong continuity of the heat operator, yield short‐time existence of solutions to certain semilinear parabolic equations. Our discussion reviews and generalizes earlier work by Jeffres and Loya.     

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.     

Regularity theorems and energy identities for Dirac-harmonic maps

We study Dirac-harmonic maps from a Riemann surface to a sphere We show that a weakly Dirac-harmonic map is in fact smooth, and prove that the energy identity holds during the blow-up process.The research of QC and JYL was partially supported by NSFC. QC was also partially supported by the FOK Yingtung Education Foundation.