Entropy, stability and harmonic map flow

DOI10.1090/TRAN/6949MaRDI QIDQ5347279zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jess Boling, Jeffrey Streets, Casey Kelleher

Publication date 23 May 2017

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.07567

zbMATH Keywords

entropy stabilityharmonic map flow\( \mathcal {F}\)-stabilityhigh-entropy solitons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Entropy and other invariants, isomorphism, classification in ergodic theory (37A35) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43)

Abstract: Inspired by work of Colding-Minicozzi on mean curvature flow, Zhang introduced a notion of entropy stability for harmonic map flow. We build further upon this work in several directions. First we prove the equivalence of entropy stability with a more computationally tractable $mathcalF$-stability. Then, focusing on the case of spherical targets, we prove a general instability result for high-entropy solitons. Finally, we exploit results of Lin-Wang to observe long time existence and convergence results for maps into certain convex domains and how they relate to generic singularities of harmonic map flow.

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