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This article addresses the regularity issue for minimizing fractional harmonic maps of order $s\in(0,1/2)$ from an interval into a smooth manifold. H\"older continuity away from a locally finite set is established for a general target. If…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Vincent Millot , Yannick Sire , Hui Yu

We study how to construct explicit deformations of generic smooth maps from closed $n$--dimensional manifolds $M$ with $n \geq 2$ to the $2$--sphere $S^2$ and show that every smooth map $M \to S^2$ is homotopic to a $C^\infty$ stable map…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Osamu Saeki

Building on seminal work of Nadirashvili and previous work of the authors, we prove the existence of metrics maximizing the area-normalized first eigenvalue of the Laplacian on every closed nonorientable surface, and give a simple new proof…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Mikhail Karpukhin , Romain Petrides , Daniel Stern

We prove that manifold constrained $p(x)$-harmonic maps are $C^{1,\beta}$-regular outside a set of zero $n$-dimensional Lebesgue's measure, for some $\beta \in (0,1)$. We also provide an estimate from above of the Hausdorff dimension of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Cristiana De Filippis

A spherical conical metric $g$ on a surface $\Sigma$ is a metric of constant curvature $1$ with finitely many isolated conical singularities. The uniformization problem for such metrics remains largely open when at least one of the cone…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-22 Mikhail Karpukhin , Xuwen Zhu

We extend the results of our recent preprint [arXiv: 1811.00515] into higher dimensions $n \geq 4$. For minimizing harmonic maps $u\in W^{1,2}(\Omega,\mathbb{S}^2)$ from $n$-dimensional domains into the two dimensional sphere we prove: (1)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-11 Katarzyna Mazowiecka , Michał Miśkiewicz , Armin Schikorra

We prove that every non-constant quasiregular selfmap of the $n$-sphere $\mathbb{S}^{n}$ admits a harmonic extension to the hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^{n+1}$ for $n\ge 2$.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-23 Pekka Pankka , Juan Souto

In this paper we study the singular set of Dirichlet-minimizing $Q$-valued maps from $\mathbb{R}^m$ into a smooth compact manifold $\mathcal{N}$ without boundary. Similarly to what happens in the case of single valued minimizing harmonic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-01 Jonas Hirsch , Salvatore Stuvard , Daniele Valtorta

We prove stability estimates for the isoperimetric inequalities for the first and the second nonzero Laplace eigenvalues on surfaces, both globally and in a fixed conformal class. We employ the notion of eigenvalues of measures and show…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Mikhail Karpukhin , Mickaël Nahon , Iosif Polterovich , Daniel Stern

We consider harmonic maps into pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. We show the removability of isolated singularities for continuous maps, i.e. that any continuous map from an open subset of R^m into a pseudo-Riemannian manifold which is two times…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frederic Helein

In this paper, we consider a closed Riemannian manifold $M^{n+1}$ with dimension $3\leq n+1\leq 7$, and a compact Lie group $G$ acting as isometries on $M$ with cohomogeneity at least $3$. After adapting the Almgren-Pitts min-max theory to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Tongrui Wang

We consider wave maps from $(1+d)$-dimensional Minkowski space, $d\geq3$, into rotationally symmetric manifolds which arise from small perturbations of the sphere $\mathbb S^d$. We prove the existence of co-rotational self-similar finite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Roland Donninger , Birgit Schörkhuber , Alexander Wittenstein

We construct an explicit family of stable proper weak biharmonic maps from the unit ball $B^m$, $m\geq 5$, to Euclidean spheres. To the best of the authors knowledge this is the first example of a stable proper weak biharmonic map from at…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Volker Branding , Anna Siffert

The aim of this paper is to prove two results concerning the rigidity of complete, immersed, orientable, stable minimal hypersurfaces: we show that they are hyperplane in $\mathbb{R}^4$, while they do not exist in positively curved closed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Giovanni Catino , Paolo Mastrolia , Alberto Roncoroni

Stable fold maps are fundamental tools in a generalization of the theory of Morse functions on smooth manifolds and its application to studies of topological properties of smooth manifolds. Round fold maps were introduced as stable fold…

General Topology · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Naoki Kitazawa

The systematic study of harmonic self-maps on cohomogeneity one manifolds has recently been initiated by P\"uttmann and the second named author in \cite{MR4000241}. In this article we investigate the corresponding Jacobi equation describing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Volker Branding , Anna Siffert

It is proved some results about existence and non existence of unit normal sections of submanifolds of the Euclidean space and sphere which associated Gauss maps are harmonic. Some applications to CMC hypersurfaces of the sphere and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-18 Daniel Bustos , Jaime Ripoll

We study biharmonic maps between conformally compact manifolds, a large class of complete manifolds with bounded geometry, asymptotically negative curvature, and smooth compactification. These metrics provide a far-reaching generalization…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Marco Usula

The eigenfamilies of Gudmundsson and Sakovich can be used to generate harmonic morphisms, proper $r$-harmonic maps, and minimal co-dimension $2$ submanifolds. This article begins by characterising the globally defined eigenfamilies of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Oskar Riedler

A classical result of A.D. Alexandrov states that a connected compact smooth $n-$dimensional manifold without boundary, embedded in $\Bbb R^{n+1}$, and such that its mean curvature is constant, is a sphere. Here we study the problem of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 YanYan Li , Louis Nirenberg