Lojasiewicz inequalities for almost harmonic maps near simple bubble trees

We prove Lojasiewicz inequalities for the harmonic map energy for maps from surfaces of positive genus into general target manifolds which are close to simple bubble trees. Our results are not restricted to particular targets but apply whenever the underlying bubble is not branched, or more generally attached at a point which is not a branch point, and has integrable Jacobi fields.

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