Subelliptic harmonic maps

Jost, Jürgen; Xu, Chao-Jiang

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-98-01992-8

Subelliptic harmonic maps
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Abstract:

We study a nonlinear harmonic map type system of subelliptic PDE. In particular, we solve the Dirichlet problem with image contained in a convex ball.

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