A geometric theory of harmonic and semi-conformal maps (Q867338)

This paper has some overlap with the author's [Theory Appl. Categ. 9, 1--16, electronic only (2001; Zbl 1026.18007)]. The author, using a subscheme \(M_{L}\subseteq M\times M\) between the first and second neighborhood of the diagonal of any Riemannian manifold \(M\), characterizes semi-conformal maps and harmonic maps geometrically. The present paper is more refined in the construction of \(M_{L}\) and the proofs than the preceding paper. The new results in the present paper are the characterization of semi-conformality and a version of the theorem of \textit{B. Fuglede} [Ann. Inst. Fourier 28, No. 2, 107--144 (1978; Zbl 0339.53026)] and \textit{T. Ishihara} [J. Math. Kyoto Univ. 19, 215--229 (1979; Zbl 0421.31006)] talking about harmonic \(2\)-jets in place of harmonic germs. The latter is almost immediate from the geometric descriptions of harmonic and semi-conformal maps.