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In this paper, we discuss the heat flows of subelliptic harmonic maps into Riemannian manifolds with nonpositive curvatures, and prove the homotopic existence which is a generalization of the Eells–Sampson theorem.
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Communicated by Jiaping Wang.
Research supported by National Science Foundation of China No. 10871149.
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Zhou, ZR. Heat Flows of Subelliptic Harmonic Maps into Riemannian Manifolds with Nonpositive Curvatures. J Geom Anal 23, 471–489 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-011-9220-1
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