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Quantitative gradient estimates for harmonic maps into singular spaces

Differential Geometry 2019-02-26 v4 Analysis of PDEs Metric Geometry

Abstract

In this paper, we will show the Yau's gradient estimate for harmonic maps into a metric space (X,dX)(X,d_X) with curvature bounded above by a constant κ\kappa, κ0\kappa\geq0, in the sense of Alexandrov. As a direct application, it gives some Liouville theorems for such harmonic maps. This extends the works of S. Y. Cheng [4] and H. I. Choi [5] to harmonic maps into singular spaces.

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@article{arxiv.1711.05245,
  title  = {Quantitative gradient estimates for harmonic maps into singular spaces},
  author = {Hui-Chun Zhang and Xiao Zhong and Xi-Ping Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.05245},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

The main results in the first version have been improved. To appear in SCIENCE CHINA Mathematics

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