Infinity-harmonic maps and morphisms

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We propose a new notion called infinity-harmonic mapsbetween Riemannain manifolds. These are natural generalizations of the well known notion of infinity harmonic functions and are also the limiting case of p% -harmonic maps as p→ ∞. Infinity harmoncity appears in many familiar contexts. For example, metric projection onto the orbit of an isometric group action from a tubular neighborhood is infinity harmonic. Unfortunately, infinity-harmonicity is not preserved under composition. Those infinity harmonic maps that always preserve infinity harmonicity under pull back are called infinity harmonic morphisms. We show that infinity harmonic morphisms are precisely horizontally homothetic mas. Many example of infinity-harmonic maps are given, including some very important and well-known classes of maps between Riemannian manifolds.