Conservation laws for fourth order systems in four dimensions
Analysis of PDEs
2007-05-23 v1 Differential Geometry
Abstract
Following an approach of the second author for conformally invariant variational problems in two dimensions, we show in four dimensions the existence of a conservation law for fourth order systems, which includes both intrinsic and extrinsic biharmonic maps. With the help of this conservation law we prove the continuity of weak solutions of this system. Moreover we use the conservation law to derive the existence of a unique global weak solution of the extrinsic biharmonic map flow in the energy space.
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@article{arxiv.math/0607484,
title = {Conservation laws for fourth order systems in four dimensions},
author = {Tobias Lamm and Tristan Riviere},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0607484},
year = {2007}
}
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20 pages