The Heat Flow of Harmonic Maps from Noncompact Manifolds

Abstract

The authors consider the global existence of the heat flow of harmonic maps from noncompact manifolds while imposing restrictions on the initial data.

Keywords

Heat flow / Noncompact manifold / Harmonic map / 58E20 / 35R35 / 49N60 / O192 / O176.3

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