Existence of expanding harmonic map flows to hemispheres

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Authors: Xuanyu Li
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Abstract

We show the existence of non-trivial self-expanding harmonic map flows starting from non-energy-minimizing 0-homogeneous maps to a regular ball or a closed hemisphere. In particular, given a non-minimizing but stationary 0-homogeneous harmonic map $u_0$ to a closed hemisphere, we construct infinitely many different weak solutions to harmonic map flow starting from $u_0$, all of which satisfy the parabolic monotonicity formula. We also use a concatenation argument to solve a non-trivial smooth harmonic map flow starting from a given non-minimizing regular 0-homogeneous harmonic map, thereby yielding the non-uniqueness of harmonic map flow with monotonicity formula. This answers a question of Struwe.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations Advanced Mathematical Physics Problems

Publication details

Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
9 February 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Preprint