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Infinite time blow-up solutions to the energy critical wave maps equation

Analysis of PDEs 2020-10-20 v3

Abstract

We consider the wave maps problem with domain R2+1\mathbb{R}^{2+1} and target S2\mathbb{S}^{2} in the 1-equivariant, topological degree one setting. In this setting, we recall that the soliton is a harmonic map from R2\mathbb{R}^{2} to S2\mathbb{S}^{2}, with polar angle equal to Q1(r)=2arctan(r)Q_{1}(r) = 2 \arctan(r). By applying the scaling symmetry of the equation, Qλ(r)=Q1(rλ)Q_{\lambda}(r) = Q_{1}(r \lambda) is also a harmonic map, and the family of all such QλQ_{\lambda} are the unique minimizers of the harmonic map energy among finite energy, 1-equivariant, topological degree one maps. In this work, we construct infinite time blowup solutions along the QλQ_{\lambda} family. More precisely, for b>0b>0, and for all λ0,0,bC([100,))\lambda_{0,0,b} \in C^{\infty}([100,\infty)) satisfying, for some Cl,Cm,k>0C_{l}, C_{m,k}>0, Cllogb(t)λ0,0,b(t)Cmlogb(t),λ0,0,b(k)(t)Cm,ktklogb+1(t),k1t100\frac{C_{l}}{\log^{b}(t)} \leq \lambda_{0,0,b}(t) \leq \frac{C_{m}}{\log^{b}(t)}, \quad |\lambda_{0,0,b}^{(k)}(t)| \leq \frac{C_{m,k}}{t^{k} \log^{b+1}(t) }, k\geq 1 \quad t \geq 100 there exists a wave map with the following properties. If ubu_{b} denotes the polar angle of the wave map into S2\mathbb{S}^{2}, we have ub(t,r)=Q1λb(t)(r)+v2(t,r)+ve(t,r),tT0u_{b}(t,r) = Q_{\frac{1}{\lambda_{b}(t)}}(r) + v_{2}(t,r) + v_{e}(t,r), \quad t \geq T_{0} where ttv2+rrv2+1rrv2v2r2=0-\partial_{tt}v_{2}+\partial_{rr}v_{2}+\frac{1}{r}\partial_{r}v_{2}-\frac{v_{2}}{r^{2}}=0 t(Q1λb(t)+ve)L2(rdr)2+verL2(rdr)2+rveL2(rdr)2Ct2log2b(t),tT0||\partial_{t}(Q_{\frac{1}{\lambda_{b}(t)}}+v_{e})||_{L^{2}(r dr)}^{2}+||\frac{v_{e}}{r}||_{L^{2}(r dr)}^{2} + ||\partial_{r}v_{e}||_{L^{2}(r dr)}^{2} \leq \frac{C}{t^{2} \log^{2b}(t)}, \quad t \geq T_{0} and λb(t)=λ0,0,b(t)+O(1logb(t)log(log(t)))\lambda_{b}(t) = \lambda_{0,0,b}(t) + O\left(\frac{1}{\log^{b}(t) \sqrt{\log(\log(t))}}\right)

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@article{arxiv.1905.00167,
  title  = {Infinite time blow-up solutions to the energy critical wave maps equation},
  author = {Mohandas Pillai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.00167},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

This is the version accepted for publication. No major changes relative to v2