Harmonic maps on hyperbolic spaces with singular boundary value (Q1569247): Difference between revisions

The purpose of the paper is to study the Dirichlet problem at infinity of proper harmonic maps for boundary data \(f:S^{m-1}\rightarrow S^{n-1}\) which may not be smooth, or the energy density may vanish somewhere. Such boundary data are called \textit{singular} and the set where \(f\) fails to satisfy one of these conditions is called \textit{the singular set of \(f\)}. After providing an estimate for the solutions of the Poisson equation in \(\mathbb H^m\), the existence theorems and some uniqueness results are proved. An explicit solution is then constructed, using the method of ODEs for a certain given boundary data. As well, applications of the results to the theory of universal Teichmüller space are presented, and all group-invariant harmonic maps from a domain in \(\mathbb R^2\) into \(\mathbb H^2\) are determined.