# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

February  2013, 33(2): 861-878. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.861

## Energy identity for a class of approximate biharmonic maps into sphere in dimension four

 1 Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, United States 2 Department of Mathematics, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China

Received  January 2012 Revised  April 2012 Published  September 2012

We consider in dimension four weakly convergent sequences of approximate biharmonic maps into sphere with bi-tension fields bounded in $L^p$ for $p>1$. We prove an energy identity that accounts for the loss of hessian energies by the sum of hessian energies over finitely many nontrivial biharmonic maps on $\mathbb R^4$. As a corollary, we obtain an energy identity for the heat flow of biharmonic maps into sphere at time infinity.
Citation: Changyou Wang, Shenzhou Zheng. Energy identity for a class of approximate biharmonic maps into sphere in dimension four. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2013, 33 (2) : 861-878. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.861
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