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 to a sphere are globally smooth if the initial data is smooth and has small norm in the critical Sobolev space , in all dimensions . This generalizes the results in the prequel [math.AP/0010068] of this paper, which addressed the high-dimensional case . 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.
Cite
@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