Eigenfunctions for quasi-laplacian

Abstract

To study the regularity of heat flow, Lin-Wang[1] introduced the quasi-harmonic sphere, which is a harmonic map from $M=(\mathbb{R}^m,e^{-\frac{|x|^2}{2(m-2)}}ds_0^2)$ to $N$ with finite energy. Here $ds_0^2$ is Euclidean metric in $\mathbb{R}^m$. Ding-Zhao [2] showed that if the target is a sphere, any equivariant quasi-harmonic spheres is discontinuous at infinity. The metric $g=e^{-\frac{|x|^2}{2(m-2)}}ds_0^2$ is quite singular at infinity and it is not complete. In this paper , we mainly study the eigenfunction of Quasi-Laplacian $\Delta_g=e^{\frac{|x|^2}{2(m-2)}} ( \Delta_{g_0} - \nabla_{g_0}h\cdot \nabla_{g_0}) =e^{\frac{|x|^2}{2(m-2)}} \Delta_h$ for $h=\frac{|x|^2}{4}$. In particular, we show that non-constant eigenfunctions of $\Delta_g$ must be discontinuous at infinity and non-constant eigenfunctions of drifted Laplacian $\Delta_h=\Delta_{g_0} - \nabla_{g_0} h\cdot \nabla_{g_0}$ is also discontinuous at infinity.