Harmonic maps with potential from R^2 into S^2

DOI10.4310/AJM.2016.V20.N4.A1MaRDI QIDQ2520705zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ruiqi Jiang

Publication date 16 December 2016

Published in The Asian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.1014

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic map with potentialLandau-LifshitzPohozaev identity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Abstract: We study the existence problem of harmonic maps with potential from $mathbb{R}^2$ into $S^2$. For a specific class of potential functions on $S^2$, we give the sufficient and necessary conditions for the existence of equivariant solutions of this problem. As an application, we generalize and improve the results on the Landau-Lifshitz equation from $mathbb{R}^2$ into $S^2$ in cite{G_S} due to Gustafson and Shatah.

Review text

A map \(u : M \to N\) between Riemannian manifolds is called harmonic if it is a critical point of the energy functional \(E(u)\). For a potential function \(H : N \to {\mathbb R}\), a map \(u : M \to N\) is called a harmonic map with potential \(H\) if it is a critical points of the functional \[ F(u) = E(u) + \int_M H(u)\, dv_M. \] In this paper, the author considers the existence problem of harmonic maps with potential in the special case where \((M, g)\) is the Euclidean \(2\)-plane \({\mathbb R}^2\), and \((N, h)\) is the unit \(2\)-sphere \(S^2\) in \({\mathbb R}^3\). Assume that \(H(x) = G(d(x))\) for a function \(G : [0, \pi] \to {\mathbb R}\), where \(d(x)\) denotes the geodesic distance from \(x\) to the north pole. The author proves that if the function \(G\) is a primitive of a function satisfying some conditions, there exists a harmonic map with potential \(H\) from \({\mathbb R}^2\) into \(S^2\).

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