On finite energy solutions of 4-harmonic and ES-4-harmonic maps

DOI10.1007/S12220-021-00610-7MaRDI QIDQ2050640zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Volker Branding

Publication date 31 August 2021

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.07068

zbMATH Keywords

4-harmonic mapsES-4-harmonic mapsfinite energy solutionsharmonic mapsnonexistence result

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Abstract: 4-harmonic and ES-4-harmonic maps are two generalizations of the well-studied harmonic map equation which are both given by a nonlinear elliptic partial differential equation of order eight. Due to the large number of derivatives it is very difficult to find any difference in the qualitative behavior of these two variational problems. In this article we prove that finite energy solutions of both 4-harmonic and ES-4-harmonic maps from Euclidean space must be trivial. However, the energy that we require to be finite is different for 4-harmonic and ES-4-harmonic maps pointing out a first difference between these two variational problems.

Review text

The author considers 4-harmonic and ES-4-harmonic maps which are both given by a PDE of order 8. The main result of this article is that finite energy 4-harmonic and ES-4-harmonic maps \(u: \mathbb{R}^m \to N\), \(m\neq 8\) must be trivial (or harmonic if \(m=2\)). Note that the energy considered is different for 4-harmonic and ES-4-harmonic maps. In both cases the proof relies on the associated stress-energy tensor.

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