Abstract
AbstractWe characterize weakly harmonic maps with respect to non-local Dirichlet forms by Markov processes and martingales. In particular, we can obtain discontinuous martingales on Riemannian manifolds from the image of symmetric stable processes under fractional harmonic maps in a weak sense. Based on this characterization, we also consider the continuity of weakly harmonic maps along the paths of Markov processes and describe the condition for the continuity of harmonic maps by quadratic variations of martingales in some situations containing cases of energy minimizing maps.
Funder
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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