Quasiregular curves

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Abstract: We extend the notion of a pseudoholomorphic vector of Iwaniec, Verchota, and Vogel to mappings between Riemannian manifolds. Since this class of mappings contains both quasiregular mappings and (pseudo)holomorphic curves, we call them quasiregular curves. Let nlem and let M be an oriented Riemannian n-manifold, N a Riemannian m-manifold, and omegainOmegan(N) a smooth closed non-vanishing n-form on N. A continuous Sobolev map fcolonMoN in Wmathrmloc1,n(M,N) is a K-quasiregular omega-curve for Kge1 if f satisfies the distortion inequality (lVertomegaVertcircf)lVertDfVertnleK(starfomega) almost everywhere in M. We prove that quasiregular curves satisfy Gromov's quasiminimality condition and a version of Liouville's theorem stating that bounded quasiregular curves mathbbRnomathbbRm are constant. We also prove a limit theorem that a locally uniform limit fcolonMoN of K-quasiregular omega-curves (fjcolonMoN) is also a K-quasiregular omega-curve. We also show that a non-constant quasiregular omega-curve fcolonMoN is discrete and satisfies starfomega>0 almost everywhere, if one of the following additional conditions hold: the form omega is simple or the map f is C1-smooth.









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