Quantitative stratification and the regularity of harmonic map flow

DOI10.1007/S00526-014-0752-7MaRDI QIDQ2347176zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jeff Cheeger, Robert Haslhofer, Aaron Naber

Publication date 27 May 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.2514

zbMATH Keywords

\(L^p\)-estimateChen-Struwe solutionHausdorff estimateMinkowski estimatesquantitative stratification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semilinear parabolic equations with Laplacian, bi-Laplacian or poly-Laplacian (35K91) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Abstract: In this paper, we prove estimates and quantitative regularity results for the harmonic map flow. First, we consider H^1_loc-maps u defined on a parabolic ball Psubset M imes R and with target manifold N, that have bounded Dirichlet-energy and Struwe-energy. We define a quantitative stratification, which groups together points in the domain into quantitative weakly singular strata S^j_{eta,r}(u) according to the number of approximate symmetries of u at certain scales, and prove that their tubular neighborhoods have small volume, namely Vol(T_r(cS^j_{eta,r}(u))< Cr^{m+2-j-eps}. In particular, this generalizes the known Hausdorff estimate dim S^j(u)< j for the weakly singular strata of suitable weak solutions of the harmonic map flow. As an application, specializing to Chen-Struwe solutions with target manifolds that do not admit certain harmonic and quasi-harmonic spheres, we obtain refined Minkowski estimates for the singular set. This generalizes a result of Lin-Wang. We also obtain L^p-estimates for the reciprocal of the regularity scale. The results are analogous to our results for mean curvature flow that we recently proved.

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