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MiS Preprint
35/2014
Lp-gradient harmonic maps into spheres and SO(N)
Armin Schikorra
Abstract
We consider critical points of the energy $E(v) := \int_{\mathbb{R}^n} |\nabla^s v|^{\frac{n}{s}}$, where $v$ maps locally into the sphere or $SO(N)$, and $\nabla^s = (\partial_1^s,\ldots,\partial_n^s)$ is the formal fractional gradient, i.e. $\partial_\alpha^s$ is a composition of the fractional laplacian with the $\alpha$-th Riesz transform. We show that critical points of this energy are Hölder continuous.
As a special case, for $s = 1$, we obtain a new, more stable proof of Fuchs and Strzelecki's regularity result of $n$-harmonic maps into the sphere, which is interesting on its own.
