The heat equation and harmonic maps of complete manifolds
The heat equation and harmonic maps of complete manifolds
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DOI:
10.1007/bf01232256
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发表时间:
1991-12
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
Peter Li;Luen-Fai Tam
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作者:
Peter Li;Luen-Fai Tam
The primary goal of this article is to understand when one can solve the harmonic map equation between two complete noncompact manifolds. Specifically, we would like to obtain sufficient conditions to ensure that a C 1 map, h, with bounded energy density between two complete noncompact manifolds can be deformed smoothly to a smooth harmonic map by solving the parabolic equation for harmonic maps. The assumption on the energy density of h is natural for most of our applications. In fact, it is known that even the standard scalar heat equation on R" does not have unique solution if the initial data grows too rapidly as a function of R m.