Harmonic maps of infinite energy and rigidity results for representations of fundamental groups of quasiprojective varieties (Q1392739)
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Harmonic maps of infinite energy and rigidity results for representations of fundamental groups of quasiprojective varieties (English)
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4 May 1999
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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.
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pluriharmonic maps
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harmonic bundles
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harmonic maps
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quasiprojective varieties
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strong rigidity
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fundamental groups
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