On harmonic maps from stochastically complete manifolds (Q2390917)

A Riemannian manifold \(M\) is stochastically complete iff for any \(C^2\)-function \(u:M\to\mathbb R\) bounded from above there exists a sequence \(\{x_k\}\) in \(M\) such that \(u(x_k)\) converges to the supremum while the limit of \(\Delta u(x_k)\) is nonpositive. This is a generalized maximum principle, which is used in the paper to derive a nonexistence result about harmonic maps from such \(M\) to a cone type target. This generalizes earlier results of Omori and Baikoussis-Koufogiorgos and in some cases coincides with a result from [\textit{A. Atsuji}, Proc. Japan Acad., Ser. A 75, No.~7, 105--108 (1999; Zbl 0960.58019)].