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Lojasiewicz inequalities for almost harmonic maps near simple bubble trees

Analysis of PDEs 2025-07-08 v3 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We prove Lojasiewicz inequalities for the harmonic map energy for maps from surfaces of positive genus into general analytic target manifolds which are close to simple bubble trees and as a consequence obtain new results on the convergence of harmonic map flow and on the energy spectrum of harmonic maps with small energy. Our results and techniques are not restricted to particular targets or to integrable settings and we are able to lift general Lojasiewicz-Simon inequalities valid near harmonic maps ω^:S2N\hat \omega:S^2\to N to the singular setting whenever the bubble ω^\hat \omega is attached at a point which is not a branch point.

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@article{arxiv.2101.05527,
  title  = {Lojasiewicz inequalities for almost harmonic maps near simple bubble trees},
  author = {Melanie Rupflin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.05527},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Additional Appendix C added which provides improved bounds in the special case of highly concentrated maps

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