Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4591125 Journal of Functional Analysis 2012 28 Pages PDF
Abstract

We consider in dimension four weakly convergent sequences of approximate biharmonic maps to a Riemannian manifold with bi-tension fields bounded in Lp for . We prove an energy identity that accounts for the loss of hessian energies by the sum of hessian energies over finitely many nontrivial biharmonic maps on R4. As a corollary, we obtain an energy identity for the heat flow of biharmonic maps at time infinity.

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