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The central theme in this paper is the Hopf-Laplace equation, which represents stationary solutions with respect to the inner variation of the Dirichlet integral. Among such solutions are harmonic maps. Nevertheless, minimization of the…

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We consider energies defined as the Dirichlet integral of curves taking values in fast-oscillating manifolds converging to a linear subspace. We model such manifolds as subsets of $R^{m+m'}$ described by a constraint…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-16 Andrea Braides , Andrea Cancedda , Valeris Chiadò Piat

In this paper we consider sequences of $p$-harmonic maps, $p>2$, from a closed Riemann surface $\Sigma$ into the $n$-dimensional sphere $\mathbb{S}^n$ with uniform bounded energy. These are critical points of the energy $E_p(u)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Francesca Da Lio , Tristan Rivière , Dominik Schlagenhauf

The harmonic map energy of a map from a closed, constant-curvature surface to a closed target manifold can be seen as a functional on the space of maps and domain metrics. We consider the gradient flow for this energy. In the absence of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-17 James Kohout , Melanie Rupflin , Peter M. Topping

In this paper we study the Dirichlet problem for fully nonlinear second-order equations on a riemannian manifold. As in a previous paper we define equations via closed subsets of the 2-jet bundle. Basic existence and uniqueness theorems are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-12 F. Reese Harvey , H. Blaine Lawson

The Dirichlet-to-Neumann map associated to an elliptic partial differential equation becomes multivalued when the underlying Dirichlet problem is not uniquely solvable. The main objective of this paper is to present a systematic study of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-10 J. Behrndt , A. F. M. ter Elst

Let O be a closed geodesic polygon in S^2. Maps from O into S^2 are said to satisfy tangent boundary conditions if the edges of O are mapped into the geodesics which contain them. Taking O to be an octant of S^2, we compute the infimum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-07-06 A. Majumdar , J. M. Robbins , M. Zyskin

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 study the map from conductances to edge energies for harmonic functions on finite graphs with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We prove that for any compatible acyclic orientation and choice of energies there is a unique choice of…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-12-06 Aaron Abrams , Richard Kenyon

We study second-order hyperbolic equations with degenerate elliptic operators and non-homogeneous Dirichlet boundary inputs. We establish existence and regularity of weak solutions in weighted Sobolev spaces under mild assumptions on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Donghui Yang , Jie Zhong

In this paper we study the behaviour of critical points of the Ginzburg-Landau perturbation of the Dirichlet energy into the sphere $E_\varepsilon(u):=\int_\Sigma \frac{1}{2}|du|^2_h\ \,dvol_h…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-17 Francesca Da Lio , Matilde Gianocca

In this paper, we consider the problem of nonlinear (in particular, saturated) stabilization of the high-dimensional wave equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The wave dynamics are subject to a dissipative nonlinear velocity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Nicolas Vanspranghe , Francesco Ferrante , Christophe Prieur

Harmonic maps are nonlinear extensions of harmonic functions. They are critical points of natural energy functionals between Riemannian manifolds. Such type of problems appear in Physics, Geometry of Finance and the study of regularity and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-27 Wei Wang

We characterize the set of positive harmonic functions with Dirichlet boundary conditions in unbounded domains which are union of several different chambers. We analyze the asymptotic behavior of the solutions in connection with the changes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-01 Laura Abatangelo , Susanna Terracini

This paper addresses the approximation of fractional harmonic maps. Besides a unit-length constraint, one has to tackle the difficulty of nonlocality. We establish weak compactness results for critical points of the fractional Dirichlet…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Harbir Antil , Sören Bartels , Armin Schikorra

The Teichm\"uller harmonic map flow is a gradient flow for the harmonic map energy of maps from a closed surface to a general closed Riemannian target manifold of any dimension, where both the map and the domain metric are allowed to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-19 Tobias Huxol , Melanie Rupflin , Peter M. Topping

In this paper, we consider a concentration of measure problem on Riemannian manifolds with boundary. We study concentration phenomena of non-negative $1$-Lipschitz functions with Dirichlet boundary condition around zero, which is called…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Yohei Sakurai

We study boundary value problems for the Laplacian on a domain $\Omega$ consisting of the left half of the Sierpinski Gasket ($SG$), whose boundary is essentially a countable set of points $X$. For harmonic functions we give an explicit…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Weilin Li , Robert S. Strichartz

We revisit the eigenvalue problem of the Dirichlet Laplacian on bounded domains in complete Riemannian manifolds. By building on classical results like Li-Yau's and Yang's inequalities, we derive upper and lower bounds for eigenvalues. For…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Daguang Chen , Qing-Ming Cheng

We prove a ${\Gamma}$-convergence result for the $p$-Dirichlet energy functional defined on maps from a smooth bounded domain $\Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^{n+k}$ to $\mathscr{N}$, a $(k-2)$-connected and smooth closed Riemannian manifold…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Giacomo Canevari , Van Phu Cuong Le , Ramon Oliver-Bonafoux , Giandomenico Orlandi