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Global regularity of wave maps II. Small energy in two dimensions

Analysis of PDEs 2009-10-31 v3

Abstract

We show that wave maps from Minkowski space R1+n\R^{1+n} to a sphere Sm1S^{m-1} are globally smooth if the initial data is smooth and has small norm in the critical Sobolev space H˙n/2\dot H^{n/2}, in all dimensions n2n \geq 2. This generalizes the results in the prequel [math.AP/0010068] of this paper, which addressed the high-dimensional case n5n \geq 5. In particular, in two dimensions we have global regularity whenever the energy is small, and global regularity for large data is thus reduced to demonstrating non-concentration of energy.

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@article{arxiv.math/0011173,
  title  = {Global regularity of wave maps II. Small energy in two dimensions},
  author = {Terence Tao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0011173},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

109 pages, no figures, submitted to Comm. Math. Phys. A technical error (U and phi need to be measured in slightly different spaces for induction purposes) has been corrected, and some other small errors fixed