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Some Liouville type theorems for harmonic maps from Kähler manifolds are obtained. The main result is to prove that a harmonic map from a bounded symmetric domain (exceptR IV(2)) to any Riemannian manifold with finite energy has to be constant.
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Research partially supported by NNSFC and SFECC
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Xin, Y. Harmonic maps from Kähler manifolds. Acta Mathematica Sinica 15, 277–292 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02650671
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02650671