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The heat flows and harmonic maps from complete manifolds into regular balls

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Jiayu Li
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Beijing 100080, Peoples Republic of China
Silei Wang
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Hangzhou University, Hangzhou 310028, Peoples Republic of China
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Abstract

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We generalise the existence result for harmonic maps obtained by Hildebrandt-Kaul-Widman to the case where the domain manifold is complete noncompact.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1998

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