The existence of harmonic maps from Finsler manifolds of Riemannian manifolds
The existence of harmonic maps from Finsler manifolds to Riemannian manifolds作者机构:LMAMSchool of Mathematical SciencesPeking UniversityBeijing 100871China Department of MathematicsRenmin University of ChinaBeijing 100872China
出 版 物:《Science China Mathematics》 (中国科学:数学(英文版))
年 卷 期:2005年第48卷第1期
页 面:115-130页
核心收录:
学科分类:07[理学] 08[工学] 0701[理学-数学]
基 金:supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.10171002)
主 题:harmonic map,Finsler manifold,existence.
摘 要:In this paper,we consider the existence of harmonic maps from a Finsler manifold and study the characterisation of harmonic maps,in the spirit of *** heat quation method we show that any map from a compact Finsler manifold M to a compact Riemannian manifold with non-positive sectional curvature can be deformed into a harmonic map which has minimum energy in its homotopy class.