On existence of harmonic maps from a surface to the space of its normal bundle

DOI10.1007/BF02572410MaRDI QIDQ1323449zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Valery Borisovich Marenich

Publication date 14 July 1994

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/174574

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic mapsheat flowzero section

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat equation (35K05) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35)

Review text

It is shown that the image under a heat flow of a zero section of some two-dimensional vector bundle over a surface does not go to infinity if the Euler characteristic of this bundle is not equal zero and a total space of a bundle has a metric of nonpositive curvature.

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Cites work

• On Homotopic Harmonic Maps
• The heat equation and harmonic maps of complete manifolds

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