{ "id": "0705.4589", "version": "v2", "published": "2007-05-31T12:28:46.000Z", "updated": "2008-09-11T18:33:16.000Z", "title": "Energy identity for approximations of harmonic maps from surfaces", "authors": [ "Tobias Lamm" ], "comment": "21 pages, statement of Theorem 1.1 corrected, to appear in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc", "categories": [ "math.AP", "math.DG" ], "abstract": "We prove the energy identity for min-max sequences of the Sacks-Uhlenbeck and the biharmonic approximation of harmonic maps from surfaces into general target manifolds. The proof relies on Hopf-differential type estimates for the two approximations and on estimates for the concentration radius of bubbles.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2008-09-11T18:33:16.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "58E20", "35J60", "53C43" ], "keywords": [ "harmonic maps", "energy identity", "general target manifolds", "hopf-differential type estimates", "proof relies" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 21, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2007arXiv0705.4589L" } } }