Properties of mappings close to harmonic mappings (Q1288106)

The author says that a mapping \(f\: V\to\mathbb R^m\), \(V\subset\mathbb R^n\), \(n\geq 2\), \(m\geq 1\), is a quasiharmonic mapping if it is continuously differentiable and there exist \(p>n\) and \(0\leq\varepsilon <1\) such that \(f\) belongs to the Sobolev space \(W^2_{p,loc}(V)\) and satisfies the inequality \[ \Biggl| \sum_{j=1}^{n}\partial_{jj}f(x)\Biggr| \leq\varepsilon\Biggl\{ n\sum_{j,s=1}^{n}| \partial_{js}f(x)| ^2\Biggr\}^{1/2} \] a.e. in \(V\). The author studies summability of the partial derivatives of quasiharmonic mappings and obtains various analogs of the Liouville theorem which asserts that every bounded harmonic function \(h\:\mathbb R^n\to\mathbb R\) is constant. Some results are obtained on the minimal differentiability properties to be required in the definition of a quasiharmonic mapping. It is shown that the class of quasiharmonic mappings is closed in the class of continuous mappings endowed with the topology of uniform convergence on compact sets. Some conditions are found for a family of quasiharmonic mappings to be a precompact family in the topology of local uniform convergence. Stability properties of the class of quasiharmonic mappings are studied in the context of the author's book [Stability in the \(C\)-norm of classes of mappings (1990; Zbl 0772.30023)].