Regularity of minimizing maps and flows various functionals and targets
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This thesis discusses regularity problems of minimizing maps and flows for various functionals and targets. It consists of four parts:
Part 1. Energy Minimizing Mappings into Polyhedra. We prove both the partial interior and complete boundary regularities for maps which minimize energy among all maps into a polyhedron.
Part 2. Bubbling Phenomena of Certain Palais-Smale Sequences from Surfaces into General Targets. We show that there is no unaccounted loss of energy for certain Palais-Smale sequences from a surface into a general manifold during the process of bubbling. We also discuss the harmonicity of weak limits of general Palais-Smale sequences.
Part 3. Maps Minimizing Convex Functionals between Riemannian Manifolds. We show that any map, which minimizes a uniformly strictly convex
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Wang, Changyou. "Regularity of minimizing maps and flows various functionals and targets." (1996) Diss., Rice University. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/16977.