On the structure of -harmonic maps

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Abstract: Let HinC2(mathbbRNimesn), Hgeq0. The PDE system [ label{1} A_infty u , :=, Big(H_P otimes H_P + H [H_P]^�ot H_{PP} Big)(Du) : D^2 u, = , 0 ag{1} ] arises as the ``Euler-Lagrange PDE" of vectorial variational problems for the functional Einfty(u,Omega)=|H(Du)|Linfty(Omega) defined on maps u:OmegasubseteqmathbbRnlongrightarrowmathbbRN. eqref{1} first appeared in the author's recent work cite{K3}. The scalar case though has a long history initiated by Aronsson in cite{A1}. Herein we study the solutions of eqref{1} with emphasis on the case of n=2leqN with H the Euclidean norm on mathbbRNimesn, which we call the ``infty-Laplacian". By establishing a rigidity theorem for rank-one maps of independent interest, we analyse a phenomenon of separation of the solutions to phases with qualitatively different behaviour. As a corollary, we extend to Ngeq2 the Aronsson-Evans-Yu theorem regarding non-existence of zeros of |Du| and prove a Maximum Principle. We further characterise all H for which eqref{1} is elliptic and also study the initial value problem for the ODE system arising for n=1 but with H(cdot,u,u) depending on all the arguments.



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