Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, Vol. 1998(1998), No. 36, pp. 1-17. Title: Existence and regularity results for the gradient flow for p-harmonic maps Author: Masashi Misawa (The Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan) Abstract: We establish existence and regularity for a solution of the evolution problem associated to p-harmonic maps if the target manifold has a nonpositive sectional curvature. Submitted August 29, 1998. Published December 21, 1998. Math Subject Classification: 35K45, 35K65. Key Words: p-harmonic map; gradient flow; degenerate parabolic system.