Polyharmonic almost complex structures

DOI10.1007/S12220-021-00695-0MaRDI QIDQ2665580zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 19 November 2021

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.09959

critical growth of nonlinearities Euler-Lagrange equation polyharmonic almost complex structures regularity of semilinear systems Sobolev spaces of almost complex structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Higher-order elliptic systems (35J48) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Abstract: In this paper we consider the existence and regularity of weakly polyharmonic almost complex structures on a compact almost Hermitian manifold

M^{2 m}

. Such objects satisfy the elliptic system weakly

[J, D e l t a^{m} J] = 0

. We prove a very general regularity theorem for semilinear systems in critical dimensions (with emph{critical growth nonlinearities}). In particular we prove that weakly biharmonic almost complex structures are smooth in dimension four.

Review text

Let \((M^n, g)\) be a compact Riemannian manifold, which admits a compatible almost complex structure. We denote by \(J_g\) the space of smooth orthogonal almost complex structures. In this paper, the authors consider the following functional, for all \(m\in \mathbb{N}^+\), \(J\in\mathcal{J}_{g}\), \[ \mathcal{E}_{m}(J)= \int_M \big|\Delta^{\frac{m}{2}} J \big|^2 dV_g:= \begin{cases} &\int_{M}|\nabla\Delta^{k-1}J|^{2}\,dV_g, \quad m=2k-1, \\ &\int_{M}|\Delta^{k}J|^{2}\,dV_g, \qquad m=2k, \\ \end{cases}\] where \(\nabla\) and \(\Delta\) are Levi-Civita connection and Laplace-Beltrami operator on \((M, g)\), respectively. The authors call the critical points of functional \(\mathcal{E}_{m}(J)\) \(m\)-harmonic almost complex structures. In this paper the functional \(\mathcal{E}_{m}(J)\) is considered on the Sobolev space \(W^{k,p}(J_g)\) of orthogonal almost complex structures. In this paper, the authors study the existence and regularity of weakly polyharmonic almost complex structures on a compact almost Hermitian manifold \(M^{2m}\). Such objects satisfy the elliptic system weakly, \([J, \Delta^m J]=0\). They prove a very general regularity theorem for semilinear systems in critical dimensions (with \textit{critical growth nonlinearities}). In particular the authors prove that weakly biharmonic almost complex structures are smooth in dimension four.

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