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Regularity for harmonic maps into certain Pseudo-Riemannian manifolds

Analysis of PDEs 2013-06-19 v2

Abstract

In this article, we investigate the regularity for certain elliptic systems without a L2L^2-antisymmetric structure. As applications, we prove some ϵ\epsilon-regularity theorems for weakly harmonic maps from the unit ball B=B(m)RmB= B(m) \subset \mathbb{R}^m (m2)(m\geq2) into certain pseudo-Riemannian manifolds: standard stationary Lorentzian manifolds, pseudospheres SνnRνn+1\mathbb{S}^n_\nu \subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}_\nu (1νn)(1\leq\nu \leq n) and pseudohyperbolic spaces HνnRν+1n+1\mathbb{H}^n_\nu \subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}_{\nu+1} (0νn1)(0\leq\nu \leq n-1). Consequently, such maps are shown to be H\"{o}lder continuous (and as smooth as the regularity of the targets permits) in dimension m=2m=2. In particular, we prove that any weakly harmonic map from a disc into the De-Sitter space S1n\mathbb{S}^n_1 or the Anti-de-Sitter space H1n\mathbb{H}^n_1 is smooth. Also, we give an alternative proof of the H\"{o}lder continuity of any weakly harmonic map from a disc into the Hyperbolic space Hn\mathbb{H}^n without using the fact that the target is nonpositively curved. Moreover, we extend the notion of generalized (weakly) harmonic maps from a disc into the standard sphere Sn\mathbb{S}^n to the case that the target is Sνn\mathbb{S}^n_\nu (1νn)(1\leq\nu \leq n) or Hνn\mathbb{H}^n_\nu (0νn1)(0\leq\nu \leq n-1), and obtain some ϵ\epsilon-regularity results for such generalized (weakly) harmonic maps.

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@article{arxiv.1101.1966,
  title  = {Regularity for harmonic maps into certain Pseudo-Riemannian manifolds},
  author = {Miaomiao Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.1966},
  year   = {2013}
}

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to appear in J. Math. Pures Appl

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