ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOR OF HARMONIC MAPS FROM COMPLETE MANIFOLDS

In this paper,the author considers a class of complete noncompact Riemannian manifoldswhich satisfy certain conditions on Ricci curvature and volume comparison. It is shown thatany harmonic map with finite energy from such a manifold M into a normal geodesic ball inanother manifold N must be asymptotically constant at the infinity of each large end of M. Arelated existence theorem for harmonic maps is established.