Abstract: | We investigate approximations E(f) of energy functionals E(f) for generalized harmonic maps f:MN between singular spaces. Given any symmetric submarkovian semigroup (P) on any measure space (M,
,m) and any metric space (N,d) we study the approximated energy functionals as well as for mappings f:MN where tn=2-nt0 and > 0. We prove that for any mapping f:MN the approximations E(f) are increasing in nN provided the metric space (N,d) has curvature -. Moreover, for any symmetric submarkovian semigroup (P) which is associated with a strongly local, quasi-regular Dirichlet form and for any bounded L2-mapping f:M N the approximations E(f) converge (for all K0) and the limit coincides with a lower semicontinuous functional on N (independent of ) provided the metric space (N,d) has relatively compact balls and {lower bounded curvature}. |