Bounded harmonic maps on a class of manifolds
Authors:
Chiung-Jue Sung, Luen-fai Tam and Jiaping Wang
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 124 (1996), 2241-2248
MSC (1991):
Primary 58E20
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03246-7
MathSciNet review:
1307567
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Abstract: Without imposing any curvature assumptions, we show that bounded harmonic maps with image contained in a regular geodesic ball share similar behaviour at infinity with the bounded harmonic functions on the domain manifold.
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Chiung-Jue Sung
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan 62117
Email:
cjsung@math.ccu.edu.tw
Luen-fai Tam
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
Email:
lftam@math.cuhk.hk
Jiaping Wang
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
Email:
jwang@math.stanford.edu
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03246-7
Received by editor(s):
December 16, 1994
Additional Notes:
The first author was partially supported by NSC grant# 830208M194030.
The second author was partially supported by NSF grant #DMS9300422 .
Communicated by:
Peter Li
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