Dirac-Harmonic Maps
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We introduce a functional that couples the nonlinear sigma model with a spinor field:
$L=\int_M[|dϕ|^2+(ψ,\Dψ)]$. In two dimensions, it is conformally invariant. The critical points of this functional are called Dirac-harmonic maps. We study some geometric and analytic aspects of such maps, in particular a removable singularity theorem.