Polyharmonic Almost Complex Structures

Abstract

In this paper we consider the existence and regularity of weakly polyharmonic almost complex structures on a compact almost Hermitian manifold $M^{2m}$. Such objects satisfy the elliptic system weakly $[J,{\Delta }^{m}J]=0$. We prove a very general regularity theorem for semilinear systems in critical dimensions (with \emph{critical growth nonlinearities}). In particular we prove that weakly biharmonic almost complex structures are smooth in dimension four.

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