Harmonic maps from surfaces of arbitrary genus into spheres

DOI10.1007/S00526-022-02314-4MaRDI QIDQ2093435zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Renan Assimos, Jürgen Jost

Publication date 8 November 2022

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.13966

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We relate the existence problem of harmonic maps into $S^2$ to the convex geometry of $S^2$. On one hand, this allows us to construct new examples of harmonic maps of degree 0 from compact surfaces of arbitrary genus into $S^2$. On the other hand, we produce new example of regions that do not contain closed geodesics (that is, harmonic maps from $S^1$) but do contain images of harmonic maps from other domains. These regions can therefore not support a strictly convex function. Our construction builds upon an example of W. Kendall, and uses M. Struwe's heat flow approach for the existence of harmonic maps from surfaces.

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