A construction of conformal-harmonic maps

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2012.10.021MaRDI QIDQ694689zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Olivier Biquard, Farid Madani

Publication date 13 December 2012

Published in Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.6130

zbMATH Keywords

conformal-harmonic mapconformally invariantgeometric flowtension field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Abstract: Conformal harmonic maps from a 4-dimensional conformal manifold to a Riemannian manifold are maps satisfying a certain conformally invariant fourth order equation. We prove a general existence result for conformal harmonic maps, analogous to the Eells-Sampson theorem for harmonic maps. The proof uses a geometric flow and relies on results of Gursky-Viaclovsky and Lamm.

Review text

Conformal-harmonic maps are a variant of (intrinsically) biharmonic maps. Although the bi-energy functional for mappings between manifolds, which is the squared \(L^2\)-norm of the tension field, is not conformally invariant, it does have a modification by lower-order terms that is, if the domain is \(4\)-dimensional. This was proposed by \textit{V. Bérard} [C. R., Math., Acad. Sci. Paris 346, No. 17-18, 985--988 (2008; Zbl 1149.58008)]. Critical points of the conformally invariant functional are called (quite confusingly) conformal-harmonic maps. In the current paper, the authors use the heat-flow method to prove existence of a smooth conformal-harmonic map in every homotopy class, provided that the target manifold has non-positive sectional curvature and that the Yamabe number is positive and the total \(Q\)-curvature is not too small in terms of the Yamabe number. The proof depends on showing long-time existence for the flow, which is performed by using arguments from \textit{T. Lamm} [Calc.\ Var.\ Partial Differ.\ Equ.\ 22, No.\ 4, 421--445 (2005; Zbl 1070.58017)].

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