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Molecular dynamics simulations are used to generate an ensemble of saddles of the potential energy of a Lennard-Jones liquid. Classifying all extrema by their potential energy u and number of unstable directions k, a well defined relation…

We analyze the asymptotic pointwise behavior of families of solutions to the high-order critical equation $$P_\alpha u_\alpha=\Delta_g^k u_\alpha+\hbox{lot}=|u_\alpha|^{2^\star-2-\epsilon_\alpha} u_\alpha\hbox{ in }M$$ that behave like…

We study nonlinear energy transfer and the existence of stationary measures in a class of degenerately forced SDEs on $\mathbb R^d$ with a quadratic, conservative nonlinearity $B(x,x)$ constrained to possess various properties common to…

In 1981, Sacks and Uhlenbeck introduced their famous $\alpha$-energy as a way to approximate the Dirichlet energy and produce harmonic maps from surfaces into Riemannian manifolds. However, the second and third authors together with…

We show that the energy critical Wave Maps equation from $\mathbb{R}^{2+1}$ to $\mathbb{S}^2$ and restricted to the co-rotational setting with co-rotation index $k = 2$ admits finite time blow up solutions of finite energy on $(0,…

We study the equivariant harmonic map heat flow, Schr\"odinger maps equation, and generalized Landau-Lifshitz equation from $\mathbb{C}^n$ to $\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^n$. By means of a careful geometric analysis, we determine a new, highly…

We investigate the blow-up analysis and quantitative behavior for a sequence of maps $\{u_n\}_{n=1}^\infty$ from degenerating tori $(T^2,g_n)$ or from degenerating cylinders $(S^1\times [0,\pi],g_n)$ with free boundary conditions…

In 1996, Shi generalized the epsilon-regularity theorem of Schoen and Uhlenbeck to energy-minimizing harmonic maps from a domain equipped with a bounded measurable Riemannian metric. In the present work we prove a compactness result for…

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…

Let $u: (M, g)\to (N, h)$ be a map between Riemannian manifolds $(M, g)$ and $(N, h)$. The $p$-bienergy of $u$ is defined by $E_p(u)=\int_M|\tau(u)|^pd\nu_g$, where $\tau(u)$ is the tension field of $u$ and $p>1$. Critical points of…

This paper explores the Harmonic matrix $MH(G)$ associated with a simple graph $ G $, where each entry corresponds to $ \frac{2}{d_i + d_j} $ for adjacent vertices $ v_i $ and $ v_j $. We investigate the spectral properties of this matrix,…

We consider the Landau-Lifshitz equations of ferromagnetism (including the harmonic map heat-flow and Schroedinger flow as special cases) for degree m equivariant maps from R^2 to S^2. If m \geq 3, we prove that near-minimal energy…

This article identifies the conformal energy (or mean distortion) of extremal mappings of finite distortion with a given quasisymmetric mapping of the circle as boundary data. The conformal energy of $g_o:\IS\to\IS$ is…

Let $B^n\subset {\mathbb R}^{n}$ and ${\mathbb S}^n\subset {\mathbb R}^{n+1}$ denote the Euclidean $n$-dimensional unit ball and sphere respectively. The \textit{extrinsic $k$-energy functional} is defined on the Sobolev space $W^{k,2}\left…

We consider the initial value problem for the inhomogeneous nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with double nonlinearities (DINLS) \begin{equation*} i \partial_t u + \Delta u = \lambda_1 |x|^{-b_1}|u|^{p_1}u +…

By using Moser's iteration technique, we show some removable singularity theorem of the tension field for biharmonic maps into manifolds of non-positive curvature, and the bubbling theorem of biharmonic maps and also harmonic maps.

In this paper, we prove that the large energy harmonic maps from $\Bbb H^2$ to $\Bbb H^2$ are asymptotically stable under the wave map equation.

In this paper, we prove that the small energy harmonic maps from $\Bbb H^2$ to $\Bbb H^2$ are asymptotically stable under the wave map equation in the subcritical perturbation class. This result may be seen as an example supporting the…

We prove a general comparison result for homotopic finite $p$-energy $C^{1}$ $p$-harmonic maps $u,v:M\to N$ between Riemannian manifolds, assuming that $M$ is $p$-parabolic and $N$ is complete and non-positively curved. In particular, we…

We consider, in a smooth bounded multiply connected domain $\dom\subset\R^2$, the Ginzburg-Landau energy $\d E_\v(u)=1/2\int_\dom{|\n u|^2}+\frac{1}{4\v^2}\int_\dom{(1-|u|^2)^2}$ subject to prescribed degree conditions on each component of…