Harmonic maps with potential

DOI10.1007/S005260050065MaRDI QIDQ5961565zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ali Fardoun, Andrea Ratto

Publication date 24 April 1997

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s005260050065

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic map with potential maps into sphere variational property

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Review text

Let \(f: (M,g)\to (N,h)\) be a smooth map between two Riemannian manifolds and \(G:N\to\mathbb{R}\) be a given function. The authors study the following energy functional \(E_G(f)={1\over 2}\int[|df|^2- 2G(f)]dv_g\), and call \(f\) the harmonic map with potential \(G\) if \(f\) satisfies the Euler-Lagrange equation \(\tau(f)+\nabla G(f)=0\). Some variational properties and some existence results for the functional \(E_G(f)\) are established. It is proved that if \(G\in C^0(S^2)\) is a nonconstant function, then \(E_G(f)\) does not attain its minimum in any non-trivial homotopy class of maps \(f:S^2\to S^2\). There exists a smooth map \(f: T^2\to S^2\), of degree 1, and a potential \(G: S^2\to\mathbb{R}\) of class \(C^{1,\beta}\) for all \(0\leq\beta<1\), such that \(f\) is harmonic with potential \(G\). Moreover, \(f\) can be chosen to be a constant map on an open set of \(T^2\).

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