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We discuss a method to construct Dirac-harmonic maps developed by J.~Jost, X.~Mo and M.~Zhu in J.~Jost, X.~Mo, M.~Zhu, emph{Some explicit constructions of Dirac-harmonic maps}, J. Geom. Phys. textbf{59} (2009), no. 11, 1512--1527.The method uses harmonic spinors and twistor spinors, and mainly applies to Dirac-harmonic maps of codimension $1$ with target spaces of constant sectional curvature.Before the present article, it remained unclear when the conditions of the theorems in J.~Jost, X.~Mo, M.~Zhu, emph{Some explicit constructions of Dirac-harmonic maps}, J. Geom. Phys. textbf{59} (2009), no. 11, 1512--1527, were fulfilled. We show that for isometric immersions into spaceforms, these conditions are fulfilled only under special assumptions.In several cases we show the existence of solutions.
We prove Liouville theorems for Dirac-harmonic maps from the Euclidean space $R^n$, the hyperbolic space $H^n$ and a Riemannian manifold $mathfrak{S^n}$ ($ngeq 3$) with the Schwarzschild metric to any Riemannian manifold $N$.
We consider minimizing harmonic maps $u$ from $Omega subset mathbb{R}^n$ into a closed Riemannian manifold $mathcal{N}$ and prove: (1) an extension to $n geq 4$ of Almgren and Liebs linear law. That is, if the fundamental group of the target manifold $mathcal{N}$ is finite, we have [ mathcal{H}^{n-3}(textrm{sing } u) le C int_{partial Omega} | abla_T u|^{n-1} ,d mathcal{H}^{n-1}; ] (2) an extension of Hardt and Lins stability theorem. Namely, assuming that the target manifold is $mathcal{N}=mathbb{S}^2$ we obtain that the singular set of $u$ is stable under small $W^{1,n-1}$-perturbations of the boundary data. In dimension $n=3$ both results are shown to hold with weaker hypotheses, i.e., only assuming that the trace of our map lies in the fractional space $W^{s,p}$ with $s in (frac{1}{2},1]$ and $p in [2,infty)$ satisfying $sp geq 2$. We also discuss sharpness.
We consider half-harmonic maps from $mathbb{R}$ (or $mathbb{S}$) to $mathbb{S}$. We prove that all (finite energy) half-harmonic maps are non-degenerate. In other words, they are integrable critical points of the energy functional. A full description of the kernel of the linearized operator around each half-harmonic map is given. The second part of this paper devotes to studying the quantitative stability of half-harmonic maps. When its degree is $pm 1$, we prove that the deviation of any map $boldsymbol{u}:mathbb{R}to mathbb{S}$ from Mobius transformations can be controlled uniformly by $|boldsymbol{u}|_{dot H^{1/2}(mathbb{R})}^2-deg boldsymbol{u}$. This result resembles the quantitative rigidity estimate of degree $pm 1$ harmonic maps $mathbb{R}^2to mathbb{S}^2$ which is proved recently. Furthermore, we address the quantitative stability for half-harmonic maps of higher degree. We prove that if $boldsymbol{u}$ is already near to a Blaschke product, then the deviation of $boldsymbol{u}$ to Blaschke products can be controlled by $|boldsymbol{u}|_{dot H^{1/2}(mathbb{R})}^2-deg boldsymbol{u}$. Additionally, a striking example is given to show that such quantitative estimate can not be true uniformly for all $boldsymbol{u}$ of degree 2. We conjecture similar things happen for harmonic maps ${mathbb R}^2to {mathbb S}^2$.
The paper was withdrawn due to a gap in the proof of Lemma 3.
We extend the results of our recent preprint [arXiv: 1811.00515] into higher dimensions $n geq 4$. For minimizing harmonic maps $uin W^{1,2}(Omega,mathbb{S}^2)$ from $n$-dimensional domains into the two dimensional sphere we prove: (1) An extension of Almgren and Liebs linear law, namely [mathcal{H}^{n-3}(textrm{sing} u) le C int_{partial Omega} | abla_T u|^{n-1} ,dmathcal{H}^{n-1};] (2) An extension of Hardt and Lins stability theorem, namely that the size of singular set is stable under small perturbations in $W^{1,n-1}$ norm of the boundary.