On the minimality of the \(p\)-harmonic map \(\frac{x}{|x|}:B^n\to S^{n-1}\) (Q5956937)

The author proves that for any real number \(1<p\leq n-1\), the map \({x\over |x|}:B^n\rightarrow S^{n-1}\) is the unique minimizer of the \(p\)-energy functional \(\int_{B^n}|\nabla u|^p dx\) among all maps in \(W^{1,p}(B^n,S^{n-1})\) with boundary value \(x\) on \(\partial B^n\).