Harmonic maps between compact Hermitian manifolds (Q1042832)

A Hermitian complex vector bundle \(E\) over a compact complex manifold \(M\) is given and a Hermitian connection as a map \(\nabla:A^p(M,E) \to A^{p+1}(M,E)\), that is, it satisfies \(d\{s,t\}=\{\nabla s,t\}+ (-1)^p\{s,\nabla t\}\) for \(s\in A^p(M,E)\) and \(t\in A^q(M,E)\), where \(\{s,t\}\in A^{p+q}(M;\mathbb{C})\) is the canonical sesquilinear pairing. This determines a decomposition \(\nabla=\nabla'+\nabla''\) acting on \((p,q)\)-forms \(w\) where \(\nabla'w\) and \(\nabla''w\) are of type \((p+1,q)\) and \((p,q+1)\) respectively. Using formal adjoints, the corresponding Laplacians \(\Delta\), \(\Delta'\) and \(\Delta''\) are defined. In case \(E\) is Hermitian holomorphic, \(\nabla\) is the Chern connection when \(\nabla''=\bar{\partial}\). The authors generalize the Demailly's Bochner-Kodaira formulas for Hermitian holomorphic vector bundles over a compact Hermitian manifold \(M\) to Hermitian complex vector bundles over a compact Hermitian manifold \(M\). Taking \(E=f^*T^{1,0}M\) where \(f:(N,\omega_N)\to (M,\omega_M)\) is a harmonic map from a compact Hermitian manifold into a compact Kähler manifold, and \(T^{1,0}M\) with the Chern connection \(\nabla^{1,0}\) (in this case defined by the Levi-Civita connection), \(f\) satisfies \(\Delta''\bar{\partial}f=0\). Applying the Bochner-Kodaira formulas the authors obtain a generalized Siu's result on the complex analyticity of \(f\). Namely, they conclude that, if \(\partial\bar{\partial}\omega_N=0\) and the curvature tensor of \(M\) is strongly semi-negative and strongly negative at some point \(f(P)\), with \(\text{rank}_{\mathbb{R}}df\geq 4\) at \(P\), then \(f\) is either holomorphic or anti-holomorphic.