English

Existence of expanding harmonic map flows to hemispheres

Analysis of PDEs 2026-02-10 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We show the existence of non-trivial self-expanding harmonic map flows starting from non-energy-minimizing 0-homogeneous maps to a regular ball or a closed hemisphere. In particular, given a non-minimizing but stationary 0-homogeneous harmonic map u0u_0 to a closed hemisphere, we construct infinitely many different weak solutions to harmonic map flow starting from u0u_0, all of which satisfy the parabolic monotonicity formula. This answers a question of Struwe.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2602.08932,
  title  = {Existence of expanding harmonic map flows to hemispheres},
  author = {Xuanyu Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.08932},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

15 pages. Comments are welcome!

R2 v1 2026-07-01T10:28:21.551Z