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Existence, Uniqueness and Regularity of the Fractional Harmonic Gradient Flow in General Target Manifolds

Analysis of PDEs 2021-09-24 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we continue to study the fractional harmonic gradient flow on Sn1S^{n-1} taking values in a general closed manifold NRnN \subset \mathbb{R}^n, addressing global existence and uniqueness of solutions of energy class with sufficiently small energy, adding to the existing body of knowledge pertaining to the half-harmonic gradient flow and expanding upon our previous work in [34]. We extend the techniques by Struwe in [30] and Rivi\`ere in [22] to the non-local framework analogous to [34] to derive uniqueness, employ commutator estimates as in [8] for regularity and follow [30] for a general existence result.

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@article{arxiv.2109.11458,
  title  = {Existence, Uniqueness and Regularity of the Fractional Harmonic Gradient Flow in General Target Manifolds},
  author = {Jerome Wettstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.11458},
  year   = {2021}
}