Energy-minimizing maps from manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature

DOI10.1142/S0219199719500834MaRDI QIDQ5152071zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors James Dibble

Publication date 18 February 2021

Published in Communications in Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.07701

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic normenergy-minimizing maphomothetyno conjugate pointsnonnegative Ricci curvaturetotally geodesic map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Rigidity results (53C24) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43)

Abstract: The energy of any $C^1$ representative of a homotopy class of maps from a compact and connected Riemannian manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature into a complete Riemannian manifold with no conjugate points is bounded below by a constant determined by the asymptotic geometry of the target, with equality if and only if the original map is totally geodesic. This conclusion also holds under the weaker assumption that the domain is finitely covered by a diffeomorphic product, and its universal covering space splits isometrically as a product with a flat factor, in a commutative diagram that follows from the Cheeger-Gromoll splitting theorem.

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