On the existence of pseudoharmonic maps from pseudohermitian manifolds into Riemannian manifolds with nonpositive sectional curvature

Abstract

In this paper, we first derive a CR Bochner identity for the pseudoharmonic map heat flow on pseudohermitian manifolds. Secondly, we are able to prove existence of the global solution for the pseudoharmonic map heat flow from a closed pseudohermitian manifold into a Riemannian manifold with nonpositive sectional curvature. In particular, we prove the existence theorem of pseudoharmonic maps. This is served as the CR analogue of Eells-Sampson’s Theorem for the harmonic map heat flow.