From harmonic mappings to Ricci flows due to the Bochner technique

The present paper is devoted to the study a global aspect of the geometry of harmonic mappings and, in particular, infinitesimal harmonic transformations, and represents the application of our results to the theory of Ricci solitons. These results will be obtained using the methods of Geometric analysis and, in particular, due to theorems of Yau, Li and Schoen on the connections between the geometry of a complete smooth manifold and the global behavior of its subharmonic functions.