On the Possible Orders of Harmonic Maps into Euclidean Buildings

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Main Authors: Breiner, Christine, Dees, Ben K.
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Published: 2026
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author Breiner, Christine
Dees, Ben K.
author_facet Breiner, Christine
Dees, Ben K.
contents We prove a discreteness result for the possible orders of harmonic maps from surfaces to Euclidean buildings; in particular for a building of type $W$ the order is of the form $\frac mk$ where $k$ divides $|W|$. This generalizes, in the case where the domain has dimension $2$, the "order gap" of Gromov and Schoen. This result follows by directly analyzing the behavior of homogeneous maps into Euclidean buildings, and then studying a related spherical billiards problem.
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spellingShingle On the Possible Orders of Harmonic Maps into Euclidean Buildings
Breiner, Christine
Dees, Ben K.
Differential Geometry
53C43, 58E20
We prove a discreteness result for the possible orders of harmonic maps from surfaces to Euclidean buildings; in particular for a building of type $W$ the order is of the form $\frac mk$ where $k$ divides $|W|$. This generalizes, in the case where the domain has dimension $2$, the "order gap" of Gromov and Schoen. This result follows by directly analyzing the behavior of homogeneous maps into Euclidean buildings, and then studying a related spherical billiards problem.
title On the Possible Orders of Harmonic Maps into Euclidean Buildings
topic Differential Geometry
53C43, 58E20
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16608