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Publications and source records attributed to Chang-Lin Xiang.
Energy identity for harmonic type maps in supercritical dimensions is an important and difficult problem. For sphere-valued harmonic maps, the first breakthrough was achieved by Lin-Rivi\`ere [Duke Math. J. 2002]. In this paper, by adapting their strategy, we establish the energy identity for stationary biharmonic maps into spheres in supercritical dimensions $n\ge 5$.
In a recent interesting work [15], W.Y. He established the important partial regularity theory and the almost optimal higher regularity theory for energy minimizing harmonic almost complex structures. Based on a new observation on the structure of equations, we give an easier new proof of the partial regularity theorem, and adapting the powerful quantitative stratification method of Naber-Valtorta [22], we further prove the rectifiability of singular stratum of energy minimizing harmonic almost complex structures. Based on this, we establish an optimal regularity theory, which improves the corresponding result of He.
In this note, applying a compensation compactness argument developped by Chen and Giron (arXiv.2108.13529) on Yang-Mills fields, we extends their weak continuity result to the more general class of $\Omega$-Yang-Mills connections on principle bundles over compact Riemannian manifold.
In a recent work, Gastel and Neff introduced an interesting system from a geometrically nonlinear flat cosserat micropolar model and established interior regularity in the critical dimension. Inspired by their work on this flat Cosserat model, in this article, we establish both interior regularity and sharp $L^p$ regularity for their system in supercritical dimensions.
This little note is devoted to refining the almost optimal regularity results of Breiner and Lamm \cite{Breiner-Lamm-2015} on minimizing and stationary biharmonic maps via the powerful quantitative stratification method introduced by Cheeger and Naber \cite{Cheeger-Naber-2013} and further developed by Naber and Valtorta \cite{Naber-V-2017,Naber-V-2018} for harmonic maps. In particular, we obtain an optimal regularity results for minimizing biharmonic maps.
In this short note, we provide a partial extension of Rivi\`ere's convervation law in higher dimensions under certain Lorentz integrability condition for the connection matrix. As an application, we obtain a conservation law for weakly harmonic mappings around regular points in supercritical dimensions.
This paper is a continuation of the recent work of Guo-Xiang-Zheng \cite{Guo-Xiang-Zheng-2021-CV}. We deduce sharp Morrey regularity theory for weak solutions to the fourth order nonhomogeneous Lamm-Rivière equation \begin{equation*} Δ^{2}u=Δ(V\nabla u)+div(w\nabla u)+(\nablaω+F)\cdot\nabla u+f\qquad\text{in }B^{4},\end{equation*} under smallest regularity assumptions of $V,w,ω, F$ and that $f$ belongs to some Morrey spaces, which was motivated by many geometrical problems such as the flow of biharmonic mappings. Our results deepens the $L^p$ type regularity theory of \cite{Guo-Xiang-Zheng-2021-CV}, and generalizes the work of Du, Kang and Wang \cite{Du-Kang-Wang-2022} on a second order problem to our fourth order problems.
In this survey paper, we give an overview of the conservation law approach in the study of geometric PDEs that models in particular polyharmonic maps.
In this note, we refine the local conservation law obtained by Lamm-Rivi\`ere for fourth order systems and de Longueville-Gastel for general even order systems to a global conservation law.
We establish an optimal $L^p$-regularity theory for solutions to fourth order elliptic systems with antisymmetric potentials in all supercritical dimensions $n\ge 5$: $$ \Delta^2 u=\Delta(D\cdot\nabla u)+div(E\cdot\nabla u)+(\Delta\Omega+G)\cdot\nabla u +f \qquad \ {\rm{in}}\ B^n, $$ where $\Omega\in W^{1,2}(B^n, so_m)$ is antisymmetric and $f\in L^p(B^n)$, and $D, E, \Omega, G$ satisfy the growth condition (GC-4), under the smallness condition of a critical scale invariant norm of $\nabla u$ and $\nabla^2 u$. This system was brought into lights from the study of regularity of (stationary) biharmonic maps between manifolds by Lamm-Rivi\`ere, Struwe, and Wang. In particular, our results improve Struwe's H\"older regularity theorem to any H\"older exponent $\alpha\in (0,1)$ when $f\equiv 0$, and have applications to both approximate biharmonic maps and heat flow of biharmonic maps. As a by-product of the techniques, we also extend the $L^p$-regularity theory of harmonic maps by Moser to Rivi\`ere-Struwe's second order elliptic systems with antisymmetric potentials under the growth condition (GC-2) in all dimensions, which confirms an expectation by Sharp.
Motivated by a challenging expectation of Rivière (2011), in the recent interesting work of deLongueville-Gastel (2019), de Longueville and Gastel proposed the following geometrical even order elliptic system \begin{equation*} Δ^{m}u=\sum_{l=0}^{m-1}Δ^{l}\left\langle V_{l},du\right\rangle +\sum_{l=0}^{m-2}Δ^{l}δ\left(w_{l}du\right)\qquad \text{ in } B^{2m}\label{eq: Longue-Gastel system} \end{equation*} which includes polyharmonic mappings as special cases. Under minimal regularity assumptions on the coefficient functions and an additional algebraic antisymmetry assumption on the first order potential, they successfully established a conservation law for this system, from which everywhere continuity of weak solutions follows. This beautiful result amounts to a significant advance in the expectation of Rivière. In this paper, we seek for the optimal interior regularity of the above system, aiming at a more complete solution to the aforementioned expectation of Rivière. Combining their conservation law and some new ideas together, we obtain optimal Hölder continuity and sharp $L^p$ regularity theory, similar to that of Sharp and Topping \cite{Sharp-Topping-2013-TAMS}, for weak solutions to a related inhomogeneous system. Our results can be applied to study heat flow and bubbling analysis for polyharmonic mappings.
Motived by the heat flow and bubble analysis of biharmonic mappings, we study further regularity issues of the fourth order Lamm-Riviere system $$Δ^{2}u=Δ(V\cdot\nabla u)+{\rm div}(w\nabla u)+(\nablaω+F)\cdot\nabla u+f$$ in dimension four, with an inhomogeneous term $f$ which belongs to some natural function space. We obtain optimal higher order regularity and sharp Holder continuity of weak solutions. Among several applications, we derive weak compactness for sequences of weak solutions with uniformly bounded energy, which generalizes the weak convergence theory of approximate biharmonic mappings.
In this paper, we develop an elementary and unified treatment, in the spirit of Rivière and Struwe (Comm. Pure. Appl. Math. 2008), to explore regularity of weak solutions of higher order geometric elliptic systems in critical dimensions without using conservation law. As a result, we obtain an interior Hölder continuity for solutions of the higher order elliptic system of de Longueville and Gastel \cite{deLongueville-Gastel-2019} in critical dimensions $$Δ^{k}u=\sum_{i=0}^{k-1}Δ^{i}\left\langle V_{i},du\right\rangle +\sum_{i=0}^{k-2}Δ^{i}δ\left(w_{i}du\right) \quad \text{in } B^{2k},$$ under critical regularity assumptions on the coefficient functions. This verifies an expectation of Rivière, and provides an affirmative answer to an open question of Struwe in dimension four when $k=2$. The Hölder continuity is also an improvement of the continuity result of Lamm and Rivière and de Longueville and Gastel.
In this paper, we prove uniqueness and nondegeneracy of positive solutions to the following Kirchhoff equations with critical growth \begin{eqnarray*} -\left(a+b\int_{\mathbb{R}^{3}}|\nabla u|^{2}\right)Δu=u^{5}, & u>0 & \text{in }\mathbb{R}^{3},\end{eqnarray*} where $a,b>0$ are positive constants. This result has potential applications in singular perturbation problems concerning Kirchhoff equaitons.
Let $M$ be a $C^2$-smooth Riemannian manifold with boundary and $N$ a complete $C^2$-smooth Riemannian manifold. We show that each stationary $p$-harmonic mapping $u\colon M\to N$, whose image lies in a compact subset of $N$, is locally $C^{1,\alpha}$ for some $\alpha\in (0,1)$, provided that $N$ is simply connected and has non-positive sectional curvature. We also prove similar results for each minimizing $p$-harmonic mapping $u\colon M\to N$ with $u(M)$ being contained in a regular geodesic ball. Moreover, when $M$ has non-negative Ricci curvature and $N$ is simply connected and has non-positive sectional curvature, we deduce a quantitative gradient estimate for each $C^1$-smooth weakly $p$-harmonic mapping $u\colon M\to N$. Consequently, we obtain a Liouville-type theorem for $C^1$-smooth weakly $p$-harmonic mappings in the same setting.
We prove local Holder continuity of quasi-n-harmonic mappings from Euclidean domains into metric spaces with non-positive curvature in the sense of Alexandrov. We also obtain global Holder continuity of such mappings from bounded Lipschitz domains.
In the present paper, we consider the nonlocal Kirchhoff problem \begin{eqnarray*} -\left(ε^2a+εb\int_{\mathbb{R}^{3}}|\nabla u|^{2}\right)Δu+V(x)u=u^{p},\,\,\,u>0 & & \text{in }\mathbb{R}^{3}, \end{eqnarray*} where $a,b>0$, $1 0$ is a parameter. Under some mild assumptions on the function $V$, we obtain multi-peak solutions for $ε$ sufficiently small by Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction method. Even though many results on single peak solutions to singularly perturbed Kirchhoff problems have been derived in the literature by various methods, there exist no results on multi-peak solutions before this paper, due to some difficulties caused by the nonlocal term $\left(\int_{\mathbb{R}^3}|\nabla u|^2\right)Δu$. A remarkable new feature of this problem is that the corresponding unperturbed problem turns out to be a system of partial differential equations, but not a single Kirchhoff equation, which is quite different from most of elliptic singular perturbation problems.
In this paper, we establish a type of uniqueness and nondegeneracy results for positive solutions to the following nonlocal Kirchhoff equations \begin{eqnarray*} -\left(a+b\int_{\mathbb{R}^{3}}|\nabla u|^{2}\text{d} x\right)Δu+u=|u|^{p-1}u & & \text{in }\mathbb{R}^{3}, \end{eqnarray*} where $a,b$ are positive constants and $1<p<5$. Before this paper, it seems that there have no this type of results even on positive ground states solutions to Kirchhoff type equations, much less on general positive solutions. To overcome the difficulty brought by the nonlocality, some new observation on Kirchhoff equations is found, and some related theories on classical Schrödinger equations are applied.