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A global weak solution to the full bosonic string heat flow

Differential Geometry 2018-12-11 v2 Mathematical Physics Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

We prove the existence of a unique global weak solution to the full bosonic string heat flow from closed Riemannian surfaces to an arbitrary target under smallness conditions on the two-form and the scalar potential. The solution is smooth with the exception of finitely many singular points. Finally, we discuss the convergence of the heat flow and obtain a new existence result for critical points of the full bosonic string action.

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@article{arxiv.1710.09242,
  title  = {A global weak solution to the full bosonic string heat flow},
  author = {Volker Branding},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.09242},
  year   = {2018}
}
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