Estimates by gap potentials of free homotopy decompositions of critical Sobolev maps

DOI10.1515/ANONA-2020-0047zbMATH Open1437.58008arXiv1811.01706OpenAlexW3102171907MaRDI QIDQ2297977FDOQ2297977

Authors: Jean Van Schaftingen 

Publication date: 20 February 2020

Published in: Advances in Nonlinear Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A free homotopy decomposition of any continuous map from a compact Riemmanian manifold $mathcalM$ to a compact Riemannian manifold $mathcalN$ into a finite number maps belonging to a finite set is constructed, in such a way that the number of maps in this free homotopy decomposition and the number of elements of the set to which they belong can be estimated a priori by the critical Sobolev energy of the map in $W^{s,p}(mathcalM,mathcalN)$, with $sp=m=dimmathcalM$. In particular, when the fundamental group $p{i}_1(mathcalN)$ acts trivially on the homotopy group $p{i}_m(mathcalN)$, the number of homotopy classes to which a map can belong can be estimated by its Sobolev energy. The estimates are particular cases of estimates under a boundedness assumption on gap potentials of the form ${\displaystyle }$iintlimits_{substack{(x, y) in mathcal{M} imes mathcal{M} \ d_mathcal{N} (f (x), f (y)) ge varepsilon}}frac{1}{d_mathcal{M} (x, y)^{2 m}} , mathrm{d} x , mathrm{d} y.${\displaystyle }$ When $mge2$, the estimates scale optimally as $varepsilono0$. Linear estimates on the Hurewicz homorphism and the induced cohomology homomorphism are also obtained.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.01706

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zbMATH Keywords

fractional Sobolev spacesHurewicz homomorphismfree homotopyvanishing mean oscillation (VMO)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sobolev spaces and other spaces of ``smooth functions, embedding theorems, trace theorems (46E35) de Rham theory in global analysis (58A12) Degree, winding number (55M25) Homotopy theory (55P99) Holomorphic maps on manifolds (58C10) Hopf invariants (55Q25)

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