Type: Article
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Citations: 15
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4310/ajm.2013.v17.n1.a1
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.