In this paper, we investigate subelliptic harmonic maps with a potential from noncompact complete sub-Riemannian manifolds corresponding to totally geodesic Riemannian foliations. Under some suitable conditions, we give the gradient estimates of these maps and establish a Liouville type result.
Han LUO
. THE GRADIENT ESTIMATE OF SUBELLIPTIC HARMONIC MAPS WITH A POTENTIAL[J]. Acta mathematica scientia, Series B, 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/s10473-024-0401-y
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