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Biharmonic wave maps into spheres

Analysis of PDEs 2019-12-24 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

A global weak solution of the biharmonic wave map equation in the energy space for spherical targets is constructed. The equation is reformulated as a conservation law and solved by a suitable Ginzburg-Landau type approximation.

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@article{arxiv.1812.03718,
  title  = {Biharmonic wave maps into spheres},
  author = {Sebastian Herr and Tobias Lamm and Roland Schnaubelt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.03718},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Minor modifications, to appear in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc

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