Partial regularity of polyharmonic maps to targets of sufficiently simple topology (Q344749)

The author proves that polyharmonic maps from \(\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^m\) to a smooth submanifold \(N\subset\mathbb{R}^n\), which locally minimize \(\int|D^kf|^2dx\), are smooth on the interior of \(\Omega\) outside a closed set \(\Sigma\) with \(H^{m-2k}(\Sigma)=0\), provided that the target manifold \(N\) is smooth, closed, and fulfills \(\pi_j(N)=0\), \(\forall j\in\overline{1\,,\,2k\!-\!1}\).