ON GEOMETRIC HEAT FLOWS IN CRITICAL DIMENSIONS

In this note we examine the heat flow for harmonic maps and Yang-Mills equations in dimensions two and four respectively. We show that these two flows are qualitatively similar for degree-2 harmonic maps.

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