Harmonic branched coverings and uniformization of CAT(k) spheres

DOI10.1515/CRELLE-2021-0031MaRDI QIDQ2238196zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christine Breiner, Chikako Mese

Publication date 1 November 2021

Published in Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12802

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic mapRiemann surfacesphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: Let $S$ be a surface with a metric $d$ satisfying an upper curvature bound in the sense of Alexandrov (i.e. via triangle comparison). We show that an almost conformal harmonic map from a surface into $(S,d)$ is a branched covering. As a consequence, if $(S,d)$ is homeomorphically equivalent to the 2-sphere $mathbb{S}^2$, then it is conformally equivalent to $mathbb{S}^2$.

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