Harmonic maps of infinite energy and rigidity results for representations of fundamental groups of quasiprojective varieties (Q1392739): Difference between revisions

The paper shows the existence of harmonic maps associated with reductive homomorphisms of the fundamental group of a quasiprojective variety into a linear algebraic group over an Archimedean or \(p\)-adic field. The constructed map may have infinite energy, but it satisfies suitable estimates at infinity, and it is pluriharmonic. This map is used to complete a previous result of Jost-Yau on strong rigidity of nonuniform lattices in Hermitian symmetric spaces, and to drop a certain topological restriction in the theory of representations of fundamental groups of quasiprojective varieties, previously developed by the authors.