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Quantization for biharmonic maps from non-collapsed degenerating Einstein 4-manifolds

Differential Geometry 2021-04-20 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

For a sequence of extrinsic or intrinsic biharmonic maps uj:MjNu_j: M_j\rightarrow N from a sequence of non-collapsed degenerating closed Einstein 4-manifolds (Mj,gj)(M_j,g_j) with bounded Einstein constants, bounded diameters and bounded L2L^2 curvature energy into a compact Riemannian manifold (N,h)(N,h) with uniformly bounded biharmonic energy, we establish a compactness theory modular finitely many bubbles, which are finite energy biharmonic maps from R4\mathbb{R}^4, or from R4/Γ\mathbb{R}^4 / \Gamma for some nontrivial finite group ΓSO(4)\Gamma \subset SO(4), or from some complete, noncompact, Ricci flat, non-flat ALE 4-manifold (orbifold). To achieve this, we develop a sophisticated asymptotic analysis for solutions over degenerating neck regions.

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@article{arxiv.2104.08830,
  title  = {Quantization for biharmonic maps from non-collapsed degenerating Einstein 4-manifolds},
  author = {Youmin Chen and Miaomiao Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.08830},
  year   = {2021}
}

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72 pages

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