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The energy of harmonic sections of flat bundles of nonpositively curved (NPC) length spaces over a Riemann surface $S$ is a function $E_\rho$ on Teichm\"uller space $\Teich$ which is a qualitative invariant of the holonomy representation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-12 William M. Goldman , Richard A. Wentworth

In this paper we study the regularity of stationary and minimizing harmonic maps $f:B_2(p)\subseteq M\to N$ between Riemannian manifolds. If $S^k(f)\equiv\{x\in M: \text{ no tangent map at $x$ is }k+1\text{-symmetric}\}$ is $k^{th}$-stratum…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Aaron Naber , Daniele Valtorta

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 classify low-energy $\alpha$-harmonic maps from a closed non-spherical Riemannian surface $\Sigma$ of constant curvature to the round sphere via their bubble scales and centres. In particular we show that as $1<\alpha\downarrow 1$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Ben Sharp

We consider the energy critical Schr\"odinger map problem with the 2-sphere target for equivariant initial data of homotopy index $k=1$. We show the existence of a codimension one set of smooth well localized initial data arbitrarily close…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-06-07 Frank Merle , Pierre Raphaël , Igor Rodnianski

Let $A \subset \mathbb{R} ^2 $ be a smooth doubly connected domain. We consider the Dirichlet energy $E(u)=\int_{A} |\nabla u|^2$, where $u:A \rightarrow \mathbb{C}$, and look for critical points of this energy with prescribed modulus…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Laurent Hauswirth , Rémy Rodiac

We propose a model for nonlinearly elastic membranes undergoing finite deformations while confined to a regular frictionless surface in $\mathbb{R}^3$. This is a physically correct model of the analogy sometimes given to motivate harmonic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-03 Timothy J. Healey , Gokul G. Nair

Let $\Omega \subset {R}^n,$ $n \geq 3,$ be a bounded open set, $x=(x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_n)$ a generic point which belongs to $\Omega,$ $u \colon \Omega \to {R}^N ,$ $N>1,$ and $ Du=(D_\alpha u^i)$, $D_\alpha = \partial/\partial x_\alpha, $…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-16 M. A. Ragusa , A. Tachikawa

Asymptotic behavior of energy of a harmonic map defined on an asymptotically hyperbolic manifold is considered. Using the growth of energy, we show that a harmonic map defined on some asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds has to be constant…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Man Chun Leung

Unit-vector fields $\nvec$ on a convex polyhedron $P$ subject to tangent boundary conditions provide a simple model of nematic liquid crystals in prototype bistable displays. The equilibrium and metastable configurations correspond to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-05-12 A Majumdar , JM Robbins , M Zyskin

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

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

In this paper, we prove estimates and quantitative regularity results for the harmonic map flow. First, we consider H^1_loc-maps u defined on a parabolic ball P\subset M\times R and with target manifold N, that have bounded Dirichlet-energy…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-08-13 Jeff Cheeger , Robert Haslhofer , Aaron Naber

An identity map $(M,g)\longrightarrow(M,g)$ is a harmonic from a Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ onto itself. In this paper, we study the harmonicity of identity maps $(M,g)\longrightarrow(M,g-df\otimes df)$ and $(M,g-df\otimes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-06 Aicha Benkartab , Ahmed Mohammed Cherif

Given a family of critical points $u_{\epsilon}:M^n\to\mathbb{C}$ for the complex Ginzburg--Landau energies \begin{align*} &E_\epsilon(u)=\int_{M}\left(\frac{|du|^2}{2}+\frac{(1-|u|^2)^2}{4\epsilon^2}\right), \end{align*} on a manifold $M$,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Alessandro Pigati , Daniel Stern

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

We show that the energy critical Wave Maps equation from $\mathbb{R}^{2+1}$ into $\mathbb{S}^2$, restricted to the $k=2$ co-rotational setting, admits arbitrarily large numbers of concentrating concentric $n$ bubble profiles. For any…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Joachim Krieger , José M. Palacios

Using the harmonic map heat flow, we construct an energy class for wave maps $\phi$ from two-dimensional Minkowski space $\R^{1+2}$ to hyperbolic spaces $\H^m$, and then show (conditionally on a large data well-posedness claim for such wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-08-06 Terence Tao

In this paper, we shall prove that a harmonic map from $\mathbb{C}^{n}$ ($n\geq2$) to any Kahler manifold must be holomorphic under an assumption of energy density. It can be considered as a complex analogue of the Liouville type theorem…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-15 Jianming Wan

Let $S$ be a punctured Riemann surface with Euler characteristic $\chi(S)<0$. For any unitary representation $\rho: \pi_1(S) \to U(N)$, we introduce its renormalized energy and its harmonic representatives, which are equivariant harmonic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Antoine Song