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On the Sacks-Uhlenbeck flow of Riemannian surfaces

Analysis of PDEs 2010-08-11 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

In this paper, we study an α\alpha-flow for the Sack-Uhlenbeck functional on Riemannian surfaces and prove that the limiting map by the α\alpha-flows is a weak solution to the harmonic map flow. By an application of the α\alpha-flow, we present a simple proof of an energy identity of a minimizing sequence in each homotopy class.

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@article{arxiv.1007.3052,
  title  = {On the Sacks-Uhlenbeck flow of Riemannian surfaces},
  author = {Min-Chun Hong and Hao Yin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.3052},
  year   = {2010}
}

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