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Deformation of contracting maps under the harmonic map heat flow

Differential Geometry 2024-12-17 v1 Analysis of PDEs Geometric Topology

Abstract

In this paper, inspired by the work Lee-Wan, we researched the rigidity of contracting maps between closed manifolds with positive curvature. We focused on the relation between curvature pinching and contracting conditions involving arbitrary kk singular values.

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@article{arxiv.2412.10620,
  title  = {Deformation of contracting maps under the harmonic map heat flow},
  author = {Jia-Lin Hsu and Mao-Pei Tsui},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.10620},
  year   = {2024}
}

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24 pages