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Long finite time bubble trees for two co-rotational wave maps

Analysis of PDEs 2026-03-11 v2

Abstract

We show that the energy critical Wave Maps equation from R2+1\mathbb{R}^{2+1} into S2\mathbb{S}^2, restricted to the k=2k=2 co-rotational setting, admits arbitrarily large numbers of concentrating concentric nn bubble profiles. For any nNn\in\mathbb{N}, we construct an nn-bubble solution concentrating at scales λ1(t)λ2(t)λn(t)\lambda_1(t)\gg \lambda_2(t)\gg \ldots\gg \lambda_n(t), where λn(t)=t1logtβ\lambda_n(t)=t^{-1}\vert \log t\vert^\beta, and λj(t)exp(tt0λj+1(s)ds)\lambda_j(t)\gtrsim \exp( \int_t^{t_0} \lambda_{j+1}(s)ds), for any j<nj<n. Here β>32\beta>\tfrac32 is a parameter that can be chosen arbitrarily. This shows that, as far as finite time blow-up case is concerned, the entirety of cases postulated in the soliton resolution theorem indeed occur, provided the concentric collapsing bubbles have alternating signs.

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@article{arxiv.2602.22825,
  title  = {Long finite time bubble trees for two co-rotational wave maps},
  author = {Joachim Krieger and José M. Palacios},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.22825},
  year   = {2026}
}

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72 pages

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