On vanishing theorems for vector bundle valued \(p\)-forms and their applications (Q543355)

The authors unify the concepts of \(F\)-harmonic maps, minimal hypersurfaces, maximal space-like hypersurfaces, \(F\)-Yang-Mills fields and they introduce \(F\)-Yang-Mills fields, \(F\)-degree, and generalized Yang-Mills-Born-Infeld fields. In this work they first obtain Liouville theorems for \(F\)-harmonic maps, \(F\)-Yang-Mills fields, extended Born-Infeld fields, and generalized Yang-Mills-Born-Infeld fields on manifolds. As another consequence they obtain the unique constant soliton of the constant Dirichlet boundary value problems on star-like domains for vector bundle-valued 1-forms satisfying an \(F\)-conservation law, generalizing and refining the work of \textit{H. Karcher} and \textit{J. C. Wood} [J. Reine Angew. Math. 353, 165--180 (1984; Zbl 0544.58008)] on harmonic maps. Last they have the generalized Chern type results for constant mean curvature type equations for \(p\)-forms on \(\mathbb R^m\) and on manifolds with global doubling property by a different approach.