Minimizing 1/2-harmonic maps into spheres

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Abstract: In this article, we improve the partial regularity theory for minimizing 1/2-harmonic maps in the case where the target manifold is the (m−1)-dimensional sphere. For mgeq3, we show that minimizing 1/2-harmonic maps are smooth in dimension 2, and have a singular set of codimension at least 3 in higher dimensions. For m=2, we prove that, up to an orthogonal transformation, x/|x| is the unique non trivial 0-homogeneous minimizing 1/2-harmonic map from the plane into the circle mathbbS1. As a corollary, each point singularity of a minimizing 1/2-harmonic maps from a 2d domain into mathbbS1 has a topological charge equal to pm1.




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