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 to a closed hemisphere, we construct infinitely many different weak solutions to harmonic map flow starting from , all of which satisfy the parabolic monotonicity formula. This answers a question of Struwe.
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@article{arxiv.2602.08932,
title = {Existence of expanding harmonic map flows to hemispheres},
author = {Xuanyu Li},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.08932},
year = {2026}
}
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