Regularity for harmonic maps into certain pseudo-Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.1016/J.MATPUR.2012.06.006MaRDI QIDQ1935501zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Miaomiao Zhu

Publication date 18 February 2013

Published in Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées. Neuvième Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.1966

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic mapsLorentzian manifoldspseudo-Riemannian manifoldsregularity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Abstract: In this article, we investigate the regularity for certain elliptic systems without a $L^2$-antisymmetric structure. As applications, we prove some $epsilon$-regularity theorems for weakly harmonic maps from the unit ball $B=B(m)subsetmathbb{R}^m$ $(mgeq2)$ into certain pseudo-Riemannian manifolds: standard stationary Lorentzian manifolds, pseudospheres $mathbb{S}_u^{n}subsetmathbb{R}_u^{n+1}$ $(1lequleqn)$ and pseudohyperbolic spaces $mathbb{H}_u^{n}subsetmathbb{R}_{u+1}^{n+1}$ $(0lequleqn-1)$. Consequently, such maps are shown to be H"{o}lder continuous (and as smooth as the regularity of the targets permits) in dimension $m=2$. In particular, we prove that any weakly harmonic map from a disc into the De-Sitter space $mathbb{S}_1^n$ or the Anti-de-Sitter space $mathbb{H}_1^n$ is smooth. Also, we give an alternative proof of the H"{o}lder continuity of any weakly harmonic map from a disc into the Hyperbolic space $mathbb{H}^n$ without using the fact that the target is nonpositively curved. Moreover, we extend the notion of generalized (weakly) harmonic maps from a disc into the standard sphere $mathbb{S}^n$ to the case that the target is $mathbb{S}_u^n$ $(1lequleqn)$ or $mathbb{H}_u^n$ $(0lequleqn-1)$, and obtain some $epsilon$-regularity results for such generalized (weakly) harmonic maps.

Review text

The regularity for certain elliptic systems without an \(L^2\)-antisymmetric structure is investigated. Namely, the regularity for weakly harmonic maps from the unit ball \(B=B(m)\subset\mathbb{R}^m\) (\(m\geq2\)) into certain pseudo-Riemannian manifolds is investigated from both analytic and geometric points of view. The obtained results rely on the theory of integrability by compensation, and on certain conservation laws which are due to the symmetries of the considered target manifolds.

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