Paper · Apr 16, 2020

On the nonexistence of harmonic and bi-harmonic maps

Ahmed Mohammed Cherif

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Abstract

In this paper, we study the existence of harmonic and bi-harmonic maps into Riemannian manifolds admitting a conformal vector field, or a nontrivial Ricci solitons.

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Apr 16, 2020
Subjects
math.DG

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  1. 11B.1
    Ricci SolitonsBook 11B · Solitons, Compactness and Singularities

    Self-similar solutions: the Gaussian, cylinders, the cigar and the Bryant soliton.

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    The Asymptotic Soliton and Three-Dimensional ShrinkersBook 12B · κ-Solutions and Surgery

    Perelman's Proposition 11.2 proved with Morgan and Tian: the reduced-length bounds on κ-solutions, the limit of rescalings, the equality case, and the classification of shrinking solitons in dimensions two and three.