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Remarks on approximate harmonic maps in dimension two

Analysis of PDEs 2016-04-21 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

For the class of approximate harmonic maps uW1,2(Σ,N)u\in W^{1,2}(\Sigma,N) from a closed Riemmanian surface (Σ,g)(\Sigma,g) to a compact Riemannian manifold (N,h)(N, h), we show that (i) the so-called energy identity holds for weakly convergent approximate harmonic maps {un}:ΣN\{u_n\}:\Sigma\to N, with tension fields τ(un)\tau(u_n) bounded in the Morrey space M1,δ(Σ)M^{1,\delta}(\Sigma) for some 0δ<20\le\delta<2; and (ii) if an approximate harmonic map uu has tension field τ(u)LlogL(Σ)M1,δ(Σ)\tau(u)\in L\log L(\Sigma)\cap M^{1,\delta}(\Sigma) for some 0δ<20\le\delta<2, then uW2,1(Σ,N)u\in W^{2,1}(\Sigma, N). Based on these estimates, we further establish the bubble tree convergence, referring to energy identity both L2,1L^{2,1} of gradients and L1L^1-norm of hessians and the oscillation convergence, for a weakly convergent sequence of approximate harmonic maps {un}\{u_n\}, with tension fields τ(un)\tau(u_n) uniformly bounded in M1,δ(Σ)M^{1,\delta}(\Sigma) for some 0δ<20\le\delta<2 and uniformly integrable in LlogL(Σ)L\log L(\Sigma).

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@article{arxiv.1604.06078,
  title  = {Remarks on approximate harmonic maps in dimension two},
  author = {Changyou Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.06078},
  year   = {2016}
}

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