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In this paper we study the harmonic map heat flow on the euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$ and we show an unconditional uniqueness result for maps with small initial data in the homogeneous Besov space…

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The purpose of this note is to prove the existence of global weak solutions to the flow associated to integro-differential harmonic maps into spheres and Riemannian homogeneous manifolds.

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In this paper, we prove that the solution of the Landau-Lifshitz flow $u(t,x)$ from $\mathbb{H}^2$ to $\mathbb{H}^2$ converges to some harmonic map as $t\to\infty$. The essential observation is that although there exist infinite numbers of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-19 Ze Li , Lifeng Zhao

We introduce and study a conformal heat flow of harmonic maps defined by an evolution equation for a pair consisting of a map and a conformal factor of metric on the two-dimensional domain. This flow is designed to postpone finite time…

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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 $n\ge 2$.

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We define a geometric flow that is designed to change surfaces of cylindrical type spanning two disjoint boundary curves into solutions of the Douglas-Plateau problem of finding minimal surfaces with given boundary curves. We prove that…

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We introduce a new approach to prove the global existence and uniqueness of suitable weak solutions of the heat flow of harmonic mappings into CAT(0) metric spaces. Our method allows also to prove Lipschitz continuity in spatial variables…

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In this paper, we first establish regularity of the heat flow of biharmonic maps into the unit sphere $S^L\subset\mathbb R^{L+1}$ under a smallness condition of renormalized total energy. For the class of such solutions to the heat flow of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Jay Hineman , Tao Huang , Changyou Wang

In this paper, we consider the pseudoharmonic heat flow with small initial horizontal energy and give the existence of pseudoharmonic maps from closed pseudo-Hermitian manifolds to closed Riemannian manifolds.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-03 BiQiang Zhao

In this paper we develop new methods for studying the convergence problem for the heat flow on negatively curved spaces and prove that any quasiconformal map of the sphere $\mathbb{S}^{n-1}$, $n\geq 3$, can be extended to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Marius Lemm , Vladimir Markovic

For any $k$-dimensional smooth, compact Riemannian manifold $(N, h)\subset\mathbb R^L$ without boundary, there exists an $\varepsilon_0>0$ such that for any homogeneous of degree zero map $u_0(x)=\phi_0(\frac{x}{|x|}):\mathbb R^n\to N$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Zhiyuan Geng , Changyou Wang , Junao Yu

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…

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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…

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In this paper, the theory of harmonic maps is extended. The soliton or traveling wave solutions of Euler's equations of the extended harmonic maps are studied. In certain cases, the chaotic behaviors of these partial equations can be found…

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We introduce a flow that is designed to flow maps $u:\Sigma\to \mathbb{R}^n$ which map the boundary of a general domain surface $\Sigma$ into a given (not necessarily connected) submanifold $N\hookrightarrow \mathbb{R}^n$ towards a free…

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We find algebraic parametrizations of extended solutions of harmonic maps of finite uniton number from a surface to the orthogonal group O(n) in terms of free holomorphic data which lead to formulae for all such harmonic maps. Our work…

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In this paper, we derive several regularity results for harmonic mappings into Euclidean spheres associated with rather general energies related to fractional Sobolev spaces. These maps generalize families of maps introduced by Da Lio,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Kyeongbae Kim , Simon Nowak , Yannick Sire

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…

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