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A relative entropy for expanders of the Harmonic map flow

Differential Geometry 2018-07-03 v1

Abstract

In this paper we focus on the uniqueness question for (expanding) solutions of the Harmonic map flow coming out of smooth 0-homogeneous maps with values into a closed Riemannian manifold. We introduce a relative entropy for two purposes. On the one hand, we prove the existence of two expanding solutions associated to any suitable solution coming out of a 00-homogeneous map by a blow-up and a blow-down process. On the other hand, generic uniqueness of expanding solutions coming out of the same 0-homogeneous map of 0 relative entropy is proved.

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@article{arxiv.1807.00140,
  title  = {A relative entropy for expanders of the Harmonic map flow},
  author = {Alix Deruelle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.00140},
  year   = {2018}
}
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