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Regularity of harmonic maps into Teichm\"uller space

Differential Geometry 2025-09-09 v1

Abstract

We prove a regularity theorem for harmonic maps into Teichm\"uller space. More specifically, if uu is a harmonic map from a Riemannian domain to the metric completion of Teichm\"uller space with respect to the Weil-Petersson metric, and the image of uu intersects a stratum of the augmented Teichm\"uller space, then uu is entirely contained in this stratum. This extends Wolpert's result on the geodesic convexity of the augmented Teichm\"uller space to higher dimensions and generalizes the regularity result of Daskalopoulos and Mese by showing that the singular set of uu is empty.

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@article{arxiv.2509.05506,
  title  = {Regularity of harmonic maps into Teichm\"uller space},
  author = {Yitong Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.05506},
  year   = {2025}
}
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