Sobolev mappings between RCD spaces and applications to harmonic maps: a heat kernel approach

DOI10.1007/S12220-023-01334-6zbMATH Open1520.53053arXiv2105.08578MaRDI QIDQ6132317FDOQ6132317

Authors: Shouhei Honda, Yannick Sire 

Publication date: 14 July 2023

Published in: The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate a Sobolev map $f$ from a finite dimensional RCD space $(X,dis{t}_X,mea{s}_X)$ to a finite dimensional non-collapsed compact RCD space $(Y,dis{t}_Y,mathcal{H}^N)$. If the image $f(X)$ is smooth in a weak sense (which is satisfied if $f_{sharp}mea{s}_X$ is absolutely continuous with respect to the Hausdorff measure $mathcal{H}^N$, or if $(Y,dis{t}_Y,mathcal{H}^N)$ is smooth in a weak sense), then the pull-back $f^{\ast }{g}_Y$ of the Riemannian metric $g_Y$ of $(Y,dis{t}_Y,mathcal{H}^N)$ is well-defined as an $L^1$-tensor on $X$, the minimal weak upper gradient $G_f$ of $f$ can be written by using $f^{\ast }{g}_Y$, and it coincides with the local slope for $mea{s}_X$-almost everywhere points in $X$ when $f$ is Lipschitz. In particular the last statement gives a nonlinear analogue of Cheeger's differentiability theorem for Lipschitz functions on metric measure spaces. Moreover these results allow us to define the energy of $f$. The energy coincides with the Korevaar-Schoen energy.In order to achieve this, we use a smoothing of $g_Y$ via the heat kernel embedding $Ph{i}_t:Yhookrightarrow{L}^2(Y,mathcal{H}^N)$, which is established by Ambrosio-Portegies-Tewodrose and the first named author. Moreover we improve the regularity of $Ph{i}_t$, which plays a key role. We show also that $(Y,dis{t}_Y)$ is isometric to the $N$-dimensional standard unit sphere in $mathbb{R}^{N+1}$ and $f$ is a minimal isometric immersion if and only if $(X,dis{t}_X,mea{s}_X)$ is non-collapsed up to a multiplication of a constant to $mea{s}_X$, and $f$ is an eigenmap whose eigenvalues coincide with the essential dimension of $(X,dis{t}_X,mea{s}_X)$, which gives a positive answer to a remaining problem from a previous work by the first named author.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.08578

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zbMATH Keywords

harmonic mapsRCD spacesTakahashi theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35)

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