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This is a survey of old and new results on the problem when a compatible almost complex structure on a Riemannian manifold is a harmonic section or a harmonic map from the manifold into its twistor space. In this context, a special…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Johann Davidov

Let $J$ be an almost complex structure on a 4-dimensional and unimodular Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$. We show that there exists a symplectic form taming $J$ if and only if there is a symplectic form compatible with $J$. We also introduce…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Tian-Jun Li , Adriano Tomassini

We establish a criterion on wrapped Floer homology of an exact Lagrangian sub- manifold in a Liouville domain, which ensures the almost-existence of Hamiltonian chords near a given energy level. To this purpose we introduce a relative…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Antoine Rodrigues

In this paper we introduce and study a geometric heat flow to find Killing vector fields on closed Riemannian manifolds with positive sectional curvature. We study its various properties, prove the global existence of the solution of this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-03 Yi Li , Kefeng Liu

We construct finite time blow-up solutions to the 2-dimensional harmonic map flow into the sphere $S^2$, \begin{align*} u_t & = \Delta u + |\nabla u|^2 u \quad \text{in } \Omega\times(0,T) \\ u &= \varphi \quad \text{on } \partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-18 Juan Davila , Manuel del Pino , Juncheng Wei

In this paper, we extend the Hamilton's gradient estimates \cite{har93} and a monotonicity formula of entropy \cite{ni04} for heat flows from smooth Riemannian manifolds to (non-smooth) metric measure spaces with appropriate Riemannian…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Renjin Jiang , Huichun Zhang

We use Hodge theory and functional analysis to develop a clean approach to heat flows and Onsager's conjecture on Riemannian manifolds with boundary, where the weak solution lies in the trace-critical Besov space $B_{3,1}^{\frac{1}{3}}$. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Khang Manh Huynh

We consider finite-time and $k$-equivariant solutions to the harmonic map heat flow from $B^2$ to $S^2$ under general time-dependent boundary data and prove that the bubble tree decomposition contains only one bubble. The method relies on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Dylan Samuelian

On a Riemannian surface, the energy of a map into a Riemannian manifold is a conformal invariant functional, and its critical points are the harmonic maps. Our main result is a generalization of this theorem when the starting manifold is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-27 Vincent Bérard

We use some natural lifts defined on the cotangent bundle T*M of a Riemannian manifold (M,g) in order to construct an almost Hermitian structure (G,J) of diagonal type. The obtained almost complex structure J on T*M is integrable if and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vasile Oproiu , Dumitru Daniel Porosniuc

We announce a generalization of Zimmer's cocycle superrigidity theorem proven using harmonic map techniques. This allows us to generalize many results concerning higher rank lattices to all lattices in semisimple groups with property $(T)$.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David Fisher , Theron Hitchman

The Teichm\"uller harmonic map flow, introduced in [9], evolves both a map from a closed Riemann surface to an arbitrary compact Riemannian manifold, and a constant curvature metric on the domain, in order to reduce its harmonic map energy…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-09-19 Melanie Rupflin , Peter M. Topping , Miaomiao Zhu

Motivated by the Hamilton's Ricci flow, we define the homogeneous flow of a parallelizable manifold and show the long time existence and uniqueness of its solutions on $[0,\infty).$ Using this flow, we outline a simple proof of the Poincare…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-01 Ercüment Ortaçgil

In this paper we consider the class $\mathcal{A}$ of those solutions $u(x,t)$ to the conjugate heat equation $\frac{d}{dt}u = -\Delta u + Ru$ on compact K\"ahler manifolds $M$ with $c_1 > 0$ (where $g(t)$ changes by the unnormalized…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Richard Hamilton , Natasa Sesum

In this paper we will prove a maximum principle for the solutions of linear parabolic equation on complete non-compact manifolds with a time varying metric. We will prove the convergence of the Neumann Green function of the conjugate heat…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-11-09 Shu-Yu Hsu

We study Hamiltonian flows in a real separable Hilbert space endowed with a symplectic structure. Measures on the Hilbert space that are invariant with respect to the flows of completely integrable Hamiltonian systems are investigated.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Vladimir Glazatov , Vsevolod Sakbaev

We provide a quick overview of various calculus tools and of the main results concerning the heat flow on compact metric measure spaces, with applications to spaces with lower Ricci curvature bounds. Topics include the Hopf-Lax semigroup…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-05-16 Luigi Ambrosio , Nicola Gigli , Giuseppe Savaré

We investigate a new geometric flow which consists of a coupled system of the Ricci flow on a closed manifold M with the harmonic map flow of a map phi from M to some closed target manifold N with a (possibly time-dependent) positive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Reto Müller

A finite-time singularity of 2D harmonic map flow will be called "strictly type-II" if the outer energy scale satisfies $\lambda(t) = O(T - t)^{\frac{1 + \alpha}{2}}.$ We prove that the body map at a strict type-II blowup is H\"older…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Alex Waldron

We show the existence of non-trivial self-expanding harmonic map flows starting from non-energy-minimizing 0-homogeneous maps to a regular ball or a closed hemisphere. In particular, given a non-minimizing but stationary 0-homogeneous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Xuanyu Li