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Given a bounded planar domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$, we show that any singular harmonic map into the circle $\mathbb{S}^1$ corresponding to a topologically nondegenerate critical point of the renormalised energy in the sense of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Marco Badran , Jean Van Schaftingen

In this paper we study upper and lower bounds of the index and the nullity for sequences of harmonic maps with uniformly bounded Dirichlet energy from a two-dimensional Riemann surface into a compact target manifold. The main difficulty…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-17 Jonas Hirsch , Tobias Lamm

We study $\Gamma$-convergence of graph Dirichlet energies and spectral convergence of graph Laplacians on unions of intersecting manifolds of potentially different dimensions. Our investigation is motivated by problems of machine learning,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Leon Bungert , Dejan Slepčev

In this paper, we develop a loop group description of harmonic maps $\mathcal{F}: M \rightarrow G/K$ of finite uniton number, from a Riemann surface $M,$ compact or non-compact, into inner symmetric spaces of compact or non-compact type. As…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-26 Josef F. Dorfmeister , Peng Wang

In this note, we study the Dirichlet problem for harmonic maps from strongly rectifiable spaces into regular balls in $\CAT(1)$ space. Under the setting, we prove that the Korevaar-Schoen energy admits a unique minimizer.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Yohei Sakurai

In this paper, we develop a loop group description of harmonic maps $\mathcal{F}: M \rightarrow G/K$ ``of finite uniton type", from a Riemann surface $M$ into inner symmetric spaces of compact or non-compact type. This develops work of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-10 Josef F. Dorfmeister , Peng Wang

The study of singular perturbations of the Dirichlet energy is at the core of the phenomenological-description paradigm in soft condensed matter. Being able to pass to the limit plays a crucial role in the understanding of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Andres Contreras , Xavier Lamy , Rémy Rodiac

We develop a renormalization theory of non-perturbative dissipative H\'enon-like maps with combinatorics of bounded type. The main novelty of our approach is the incorporation of Pesin theoretic ideas to the renormalization method, which…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-11-14 Jonguk Yang

In this paper, we first study the $\alpha-$energy functional, Euler-Lagrange operator and $\alpha$-stress energy tensor. Second, it is shown that the critical points of $\alpha-$ energy functional are explicitly related to harmonic maps…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-18 Seyed Mehdi Kazemi Torbaghan , Keyvan Salehi , Salman Babayi

We consider minimising $p$-harmonic maps from three-dimensional domains to the real projective plane, for $1<p<2$. These maps arise as least-energy configurations in variational models for nematic liquid crystals. We show that the singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Giacomo Canevari , Giandomenico Orlandi

A new Hardy space Hardy space approach of Dirichlet type problem based on Tikhonov regularization and Reproducing Hilbert kernel space is discussed in this paper, which turns out to be a typical extremal problem located on the upper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Zhulin Liu , C. L. Philip Chen

We consider an inverse spectral problem on a quantum graph associated with the square lattice. Assuming that the potentials on the edges are compactly supported and symmetric, we show that the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for a boundary value…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-06-26 Dongjie Wu , Chuan-Fu Yang , Natalia Pavlovna Bondarenko

We extend the well-known Sacks-Uhlenbeck energy gap result (1981) for harmonic maps from closed Riemann surfaces into closed Riemannian manifolds from the case of maps with small energy (thus near a constant map), to the case of harmonic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-23 Paul M. N. Feehan

In this paper, we establish the uniqueness of heat flow of harmonic maps into (N, h) that have sufficiently small renormalized energies, provided that N is either a unit sphere $S^{k-1}$ or a compact Riemannian homogeneous manifold without…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-11 Tao Huang , Changyou Wang

We develop the notion of renormalized energy in CR geometry, for maps from a strictly pseudoconvex pseudohermitian manifold to a Riemannian manifold. This energy is a CR invariant functional, whose critical points, which we call CR-harmonic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Gautier Dietrich

We study harmonic maps from degenerating Riemann surfaces with uniformly bounded energy and show the so-called generalized energy identity. We find conditions that are both necessary and sufficient for the compactness in $W^{1,2}$ and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-01-07 Miaomiao Zhu

We study Dirac-harmonic maps from degenerating spin surfaces with uniformly bounded energy and show the so-called generalized energy identity in the case that the domain converges to a spin surface with only Neveu-Schwarz type nodes. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-01-07 Miaomiao Zhu

There has been much progress in recent years in understanding the existence problem for wave maps with small critical Sobolev norm (in particular for two-dimensional wave maps with small energy); a key aspect in that theory has been a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Terence Tao

We introduce a rectified $n$-harmonic map flow from an n-dimensional closed Riemannian manifold to another closed Riemannian manifold. We prove existence of a global solution, which is regular except for a finite number of points, of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-16 Min-Chun Hong