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A construction of conformal-harmonic maps
Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Volume 350 (2012) no. 21-22, pp. 967-970.

Conformal harmonic maps from a 4-dimensional conformal manifold to a Riemannian manifold are maps satisfying a certain conformally invariant fourth order equation. We prove a general existence result for conformal harmonic maps, analogous to the Eells–Sampson theorem for harmonic maps. The proof uses a geometric flow and relies on results of Gursky–Viaclovsky and Lamm.

Les applications conformes-harmoniques dʼune variété conforme de dimension 4 vers une variété riemannienne sont les solutions dʼune équation non linéaire, conformément invariante, dʼordre 4. Nous démontrons un résultat général dʼexistence pour ces applications conformes-harmoniques, analogue au théorème dʼEells–Sampson pour les applications harmoniques. La démonstration utilise un flot géométrique et sʼappuie sur des résultats de Gursky–Viaclovsky et Lamm.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.crma.2012.10.021

Olivier Biquard 1, 2; Farid Madani 3

1 UPMC, Université Paris 6, France
2 École normale supérieure, 45 rue dʼUlm, 75005 Paris, France
3 Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität Regensburg, Germany
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Olivier Biquard; Farid Madani. A construction of conformal-harmonic maps. Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Volume 350 (2012) no. 21-22, pp. 967-970. doi : 10.1016/j.crma.2012.10.021. https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/mathematique/articles/10.1016/j.crma.2012.10.021/

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[4] T. Lamm Biharmonic map heat flow into manifolds of nonpositive curvature, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations, Volume 22 (2005), pp. 421-445

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