Proper harmonic maps between asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds

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Abstract: Generalizing the result of Li and Tam for the hyperbolic spaces, we prove an existence theorem on the Dirichlet problem for harmonic maps with C1 boundary conditions at infinity between asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds.


Let \((M^{n}, g)\) be a non-compact manifold of dimension at least two, equipped with a smooth Riemannian metric \(g\) and \(\bar{M}=M\cup\partial M\). \((M, g)\) is called a \(\mathcal{C}^{2}\) conformally compact manifold if \(r^{2}g\) extends to \(\mathcal{C}^{2}\) Riemannian metric \(\bar{g}\) on \(\bar{M}\), where \(r \in C^{\infty}(M)\) is a smooth (positive) defining function. If \(| d\log r|_{g}= | dr |_{\bar{g}}= 1\) on \( \partial M\) (equivalent, that the sectional curvature \( K_{g}\) uniformly tends to \(-1\)), then \((M^{n}, g)\) is said to be asymptotically hyperbolic (AH, for short). For two \(\mathcal{C}^{2}\) conformally compact AH manifolds, \((M^{m+1}, g)\) and \((N^{n+1}, h)\), where \(m, n \geq 1\) and for any boundary map \(f \in C^{0}(\partial M,\partial N )\), consider \(\mathcal{M}_{f}=\{ u \in C^{0}(\bar{M}, \bar{N}) | u \text{ maps } \partial M \text{ into } \partial N \}\). If \(\mathcal{M}_{f}\) is nonempty, each of its connected components is called a relative homotopy class. Under the assumptions \(|\mathrm{Ric}(g) + ng |_{g} =o(r)\) as \(r\rightarrow 0\) and \(h\) has a nonpositive sectional curvature, and if \( u_{0} \in C^{1}(\bar{M}, \bar{N}) \) satisfies \(u_{0}(\partial M) \subset \partial N\) and \(f=u_{0}| \partial M\) has nonwhere vanishing differential \(df: T\partial M \rightarrow T\partial M\), the authors prove the existence and uniqueness of a proper harmonic map (tension field \(\tau (u)=0\)) \(u \in C^{1}(\bar{M}, \bar{N}) \cap C^{\infty}(M, N) \) within the same relative homotopy class. This theorem is an extension of results proved by \textit{P. Li} and \textit{L.-f. Tam} [Indiana Univ. Math. J. 42, No. 2, 591--635 (1993; Zbl 0790.58011)] and regarded as the non-compact version of the result of \textit{J. Eells jun.} and \textit{J. H. Sampson} in [Am. J. Math. 86, 109--160 (1964; Zbl 0122.40102)].











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