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Lipschitz regularity of sub-elliptic harmonic maps into CAT(0) spaces

Differential Geometry 2024-05-15 v2 Analysis of PDEs Metric Geometry

Abstract

We prove the local Lipschitz continuity of sub-elliptic harmonic maps between certain singular spaces, more specifically from the nn-dimensional Heisenberg group into CAT(0)CAT(0) spaces. Our main theorem establishes that these maps have the desired Lipschitz regularity, extending the H\"older regularity in this setting proven by Y. Gui et. al and obtaining same regularity as in the work of H-C. Zhang and X-P. Zhu for certain sub-Riemannian geometries, see also the works of A. Mondino and D. Semola, as well as N. Gigli, for generalisations to RCD spaces. The present result paves the way for a general regularity theory of sub-elliptic harmonic maps, providing a versatile approach applicable beyond the Heisenberg group.

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@article{arxiv.2312.17112,
  title  = {Lipschitz regularity of sub-elliptic harmonic maps into CAT(0) spaces},
  author = {Renan Assimos and Yaoting Gui and Jürgen Jost},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.17112},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

27 pages, no figures, comments are welcome. In version 2, a missing bibliographical information has been added

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