Harmonic maps on hyperbolic spaces with singular boundary value (Q1569247)

The purpose of the paper is to study the Dirichlet problem at infinity of proper harmonic maps for boundary data \(f:S^{m-1}\rightarrow S^{n-1}\) which may not be smooth, or the energy density may vanish somewhere. Such boundary data are called \textit{singular} and the set where \(f\) fails to satisfy one of these conditions is called \textit{the singular set of \(f\)}. After providing an estimate for the solutions of the Poisson equation in \(\mathbb H^m\), the existence theorems and some uniqueness results are proved. An explicit solution is then constructed, using the method of ODEs for a certain given boundary data. As well, applications of the results to the theory of universal Teichmüller space are presented, and all group-invariant harmonic maps from a domain in \(\mathbb R^2\) into \(\mathbb H^2\) are determined.