Abstract: | We consider the harmonic heat flow for maps u between B3, the unit ball of , and its boundary S2. For a class of possibly singular initial and boundary data we show the existence of a weak solution whose singular set is a fixed discrete set on the vertical axis arbitrarily prescribed. Other examples including isolated singularities moving along a prescribed trajectory are given.Received: 23 October 2002, Accepted: 12 March 2003, Published online: 4 September 2003 |