We study the stability of harmonic maps between Finsler manifolds and Riemannian manifolds with positive Ricci curvature, and we prove that if Mⁿ is a compact Einstein Riemannian minimal submanifold of a Riemannian unit sphere with Ricci curvature satisfying , then there is no non-degenerate stable harmonic map between M and any compact Finsler manifold.
We classify Hopf cylinders with proper mean curvature vector field in Sasakian 3-manifolds with respect to the Tanaka-Webster connection.
We classify nonconstant entire local minimizers of the standard Ginzburg–Landau functional for maps in satisfying a natural energy bound. Up to translations and rotations,such solutions of the Ginzburg–Landau system are given by an explicit solution equivariant under the action of the orthogonal group.
We investigate the gradient flow associated to the prescribed scalar curvature problem on compact riemannian surfaces. We prove the global existence and the convergence at infinity of this flow under sufficient conditions on the prescribed function, which we suppose just continuous. In particular, this gives a uniform approach to solve the prescribed scalar curvature problem for general compact surfaces.