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1 HOUSTON JOURNAL OF 1998 University of Houston Volume 24, No. 4, 1998 THE ISOENERGY INEQUALITY FOR A HARMONIC MAP JAIGYOUNG CHOE Communicated by Robert M. Hardt ABSTRACT. Let u be a harmonic map from a unit ball B in Rn into a nonpositively curved manifold, E(u) the energy of u, E(u\a~) the energy of alas. Then we obtain a relationship between E(u) and E(ula~), called the isoenergy inequality, (n - l)e(u) 5 E(U\aB). When the target manifold has no curvature assumption and u is stationary, it is shown that (n - 2)E(u) 5 E(ulae). These isoenergy inequalities are sharp because equality is attained by some canonical harmonic maps. 1. INTR~DuOTI~N It is the isoperimetric inequality that relates the volume of a domain D in R with the volume of the boundary of D. Steiner [13] proved that for any dimension n>2 nnu,vozume(d)n-l 5 VoZume(8D), where w, is the volume of a unit ball in R and equality holds if and only if D is a ball. Recently Kleiner [7] and Croke [2] obtained the same isoperimetric inequality for domains in a nonpositively curved n-dimensional simply connected Riemannian manifold for n = 3 and 4, respectively. But in a nonnegatively curved Riemannian manifold, the sharp isoperimetric inequality is known only for dimension two (see [I$]). In this paper we study an isoperimetric inequality for energy instead of volume. Let us consider a smooth harmonic map u from a closed unit ball B c R to Rm,n 2 2. Define E(u) and Eat) to be the energy of the map 2~ and the energy of the restriction of u to db, respectively. Then is there any relationship between E(u) and E(ula~) that resembles the isoperimetric inequality? Here we answer this question affirmatively: we obtain a relationship in a sharp form, called Supported in part by BSRI ,GARC,KOSEF( ). 649
2 650 JAIGYOUNG CHOE the isoenergy inequality, for a general target manifold N as well as Rm. First, if N is nonpositively curved, then we show (n - l)e(u) < E(u18B), where equality holds when N = R and u is a linear map. Second, when N is any Riemannian manifold of dimension > 3, we prove (n - 2)E(u) 5 E(ulaB), where equality holds if N =,YP1 c R and u(z) = z/izi. We would like to thank R. Schoen and L. Simon for their interest in this work. 2. THE ISOENERGY INEQUALITY Assume that M, N are Riemannian manifolds with Nk isometrically em- bedded in R. We look at a bounded map u : M + N whose first derivatives are in L2; such a map is thought of as a map u = ( ~11,.., u,) : M t R having image almost everywhere in N. Then the energy E(u) of u is defined by E(u) = I lw2, M where IVu12 = C~= =,IVui12, Vui being the gradient of ui on M. IVu12 is called the energy density of u. The critical points of E(u) on the space of maps are referred to as harmonic maps. Thus u E C2 is harmonic if and only if (I) AM u I T,N. A harmonic map u is stationary if its energy is critical with respect to variations of the type u o Ft, where Ft : M + M is a smooth path of diffeomorphisms of M fixing the boundary. It can be shown that a Co harmonic map is stationary and that stationary harmonic maps satisfy the monotonicity property for the scale invariant energy in balls. We state an equivalent form of the monotonicity in the following lemma. Lemma 2.1. Let B, = {x E R : 1x1 < p} and B = B1. Suppose u : BI+~ + N, E > 0, is a stationary harmonic map. We have (n - 2) L IVu12 = S,, ( IVu12-2 1$4 ), T = 121. PROOF. The monotonicity formula [9,11] says P 2-n [Vu12 - a2--n s BP
3 THE ISOENERGY INEQUALITY FOR A HARMONIC MAP 651 for Cl < 0 < p < I+E. Noting that SaBP f = & s, f for almost all p, differentiate P the formula with respect to p and set p = 1. cl The first isoenergy inequality of this paper holds for a stationary harmonic map of Bl+, into an arbitrary target manifold. Theorem 2.2. Let n 2 3 and suppose that u : B1+E + N, E > 0, is a stationary harmonic map. Then (n - 2)E(ub) I E(uIas), where equality can be attained if N = 57-l C Rn and u(x) = x/(x\. PROOF. Let vu, denote the gradient of pi on db. Observe that It follows from (2) that (3) which gives the desired inequality. If u(z) = x/1x1, then l%/drl = 0 and hence equality holds. 0 Remark 1. i) It should be mentioned that Lemma 2.1 and Theorem 2.2 fail to hold for nonstationary harmonic maps. See [8,10] for such maps. ii) We should remark, in relation to Theorem 2.2, J.C.Wood s theorem that any smooth harmonic map u (n > 2) which is constant on 3B is constant [14] (see also [15]); the case for weakly harmonic maps is still open. iii) When n = 3,4,5,6, there is a sequence {&} of C2 harmonic maps 4% : B + S c Rn+l (see [12]) such that &(x) = (x,0) for z E db, E(&) < E(&+I), and n - 2 = iqf LTk;). 2 Now we prove the isoenergy inequality for a harmonic map from B into R. Although it is a special case of the isoenergy inequality for harmonic maps into a nonpositively curved space (Theorem 2.4), we state it independently because the proof of the Euclidean case is different and interesting in its own right. Theorem 2.3. Suppose that u is a smooth harmonic map from fi C R, n > 2, into R. Then we have the isoenergy inequality (n - l)e(u) F E(ula~),
4 652 JAIGYOUNG CHOE where equality holds if and only if u is a linear map from R to R. PROOF. Hence (1) implies Aui = 0, i = 1,..,m. Here, without loss of generality, let us assume s ab 2Li = 0, i = l,...,m. Using (3) and the fact that n - 1 is the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian on 8B, one sees that (*) 5 [~~~~~~u,12]1 2:L.(I18zj-(n-2)E(u)~1 2. Hence by combining the inequalities above one gets EW2 I -&E(ula~) [E(ulaB) - (n - 2)E(u)l, which gives the desired isoenergy inequality. Moreover equality holds if and only if ui is a constant multiple of dui/dr and f&b ui + (n - l)ui = 0, i = 1,..., m, which holds if and only if u is a linear map from R to R. 0 Theorem 2.4. If u is a smooth harmonic nonpositive curvature, then map from B c R, n 2 2, to N of (n - l)e(u) I E(+B). PROOF. The Bochner formula [3] says that if u : M + N is harmonic then ~AlVu12 = liv dul12 - CRN(u,e,,u*ea,u,e~,u,ea) a,b (4 + C RiCM(U*C9i, U*O,)
5 THE ISOENERGY INEQUALITY FOR A HARMONIC MAP 653 where V is the pullback connection from TN, el,..., e, is an orthonormal basis for TM and Or,., 01~ is orthonormal for T*N. Hence for M = B and N nonpositively curved, ]Vu12 is subharmonic. Since the mean value of a subharmonic function on a sphere of radius r centered at the origin is monotonically nondecreasing as a function of r, one can deduce that s _ W7l nwn ab where equality follows from (2). So 2 (5) E(u) < * /I i3b dr I Then adding (3) to (5) gives the isoenergy inequality. 0 Remark 2. In case u is a harmonic map from a ball B, of radius p into N of nonpositive curvature, we obviously have When the target manifold N is nonpositively curved we have an extension theorem by Eells-Sampson [4] and Hamilton [6]: given 4 E C3(B, N), there is a harmonic map u E C2(B, N) such that u = 4 on db, and u is homotopic to 4. This theorem allows us to impose a condition on u]ab, e.g. conformality. Thus we can obtain a mixture of the isoenergy inequality and the isoperimetric inequality as follows. Corollary 2.5. Suppose N is nonpositively curved and let I?[ = {X E ILL : 1x1 < l}, 1 = 2,3. i) If u : B2 + N is harmonic and ul,yb is a constant speed map, then 4xArea(u(B )) 5 2nE(u) 5 Length(u(dB2))2. ii) If u : B3 -+ N is harmonic and ulab is conformal, then E(u) < Area(u(8B3)). iii) If u : B + N is harmonic and u]a~ is conformal, then (nw,)3--ne(u)n-1 5 VoZume(u(dB))2. Proof. i) The first inequality is well known. For the second, use the constant speed condition and Theorem 2.4.
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