Harmonic Maps and Critical Points of Penalized Energy

Abstract

" We discuss a sequence solutions u_ε for the E-L equations of the penalized energy defined by Chen-Struwe. We show that the blow-up set of u_ε is a H^{m-2} - rectifiable set and its weak limit satisfies a blow-up formula. Consequently, the weak limit will be a stationary harmonic map if and only if the blow-up set is stationary."