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Concentric bubbles concentrating in finite time for the energy critical wave maps equation

Analysis of PDEs 2025-01-16 v1

Abstract

We show that the energy critical Wave Maps equation from R2+1\mathbb{R}^{2+1} to S2\mathbb{S}^2 and restricted to the co-rotational setting with co-rotation index k=2k = 2 admits finite time blow up solutions of finite energy on (0,t0]×R2(0, t_0]\times \mathbb{R}^2, t0>0t_0>0, and concentrating two concentric bubble profiles at the frequency scales λ1(t)=eα(t),α(t)logtβ+1\lambda_1(t) = e^{\alpha(t)},\,\alpha(t)\sim \big|\log t\big|^{\beta+1}, as well as λ2(t)=t1logtβ\lambda_2(t) = t^{-1}\cdot \big|\log t\big|^{\beta}. The parameter β>32\beta>\frac32 can be chosen arbitrarily. This shows that soliton resolution scenarios with finite time blow up and N=2N = 2 collapsing profiles, i. e. bubble trees, do occur for this equation.

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@article{arxiv.2501.08396,
  title  = {Concentric bubbles concentrating in finite time for the energy critical wave maps equation},
  author = {Jacek Jendrej and Joachim Krieger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.08396},
  year   = {2025}
}

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