Sobolev inequalities and isolation results for harmonic maps (Q1815488)

In this paper, the author establishes the following Sobolev inequality by studying a class of semilinear elliptic equations on \(M\): Suppose \((M,g)\) is a compact Riemannian manifold with convex boundary and with Ricci curvature \(\geq k>0\). Let \(m\) be the dimension of \(M\). (1) If \(m>2\), then for any \(f\in H^2_1(M)\), we have \[ |f|^2_{2m/(m-2)}\leq \text{Vol}(M)^{-2/m}\left(\frac{4(m-1)}{m(m-2)k}\right)|df|^2_2+|f|^2_2 \] (2) If \(m=2\), then for any \(f\in H^2_1(M)\), we have \[ |f|^2\leq \text{Vol}(M)^{-1/2}(k^{-1}|df|^2_2+|f|^2_2). \] By using this inequality, the author can get an isolation theorem for harmonic maps.