In this paper, we consider the heat ‡flow for p-pseudoharmonic maps from a closed Sasakian manifold into a compact Riemannian manifold. We prove global existence and asymptotic convergence of the solution for the p-pseudoharmonic map heat ‡flow provided that the sectional curvature of the target manifold is nonpositive. Moreover, without the curvature assumption on the target manifold, we obtain global existence and asymptotic convergence of the p-pseudoharmonic map heat fl‡ow as well when its initial p-energy is sufficiently small.

A generation of symbols asserted for n ≥ 0 in the proof of Theorem 3.3 of the original paper in fact only holds for n > 0, thus undermining the proof of the theorem. A new version of Section 3.5 of the original paper is given, culminating in a corrected proof of Theorem 3.3. The author thanks Deepak Khosla for pointing out the gap in the previous version of the proof.

For a simply connected solvable Lie group G with a cocompact discrete subgroup 􀀀, we consider the space of differential forms on the solvmanifold G/􀀀 with values in a certain flat bundle so that this space has a structure of a differential graded algebra (DGA). We construct Sullivan’s minimal model of this DGA. This result is an extension of Nomizu’s theorem for ordinary coefficients in the nilpotent case. By using this result, we refine Hasegawa’s result of formality of nilmanifolds and Benson-Gordon’s result of hard Lefschetz properties of nilmanifolds.

A hyperbolic 3-manifold M which fibers over the circle admits a flow called the suspension flow. We show that such a flow can be isotoped to be uniformly quasigeodesic in the hyperbolic metric on M; i.e., the flow lines lifted to hyperbolic space are K-bilipschitz embeddings of R (K > 1 fixed).

Given a smooth polarized Riemann surface (X, L) endowed with a hyperbolic metric \omega with cusp singularities along a divisor D, we show the L^ 2 projective embedding of (X, D) defined by L^ k is asymptotically almost balanced in a weighted sense. The proof depends on sufficiently precise understanding of the behavior of the Bergman kernel in three regions, with the most crucial one being the neck region around D. This is the first step towards understanding the algebro-geometric stability of extremal Khler metrics with singularities.