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We establish global well-posedness and scattering for wave maps from $d$-dimensional hyperbolic space into Riemannian manifolds of bounded geometry for initial data that is small in the critical Sobolev space for $d \geq 4$. The main…
Using the harmonic map heat flow, we construct an energy class for wave maps $\phi$ from two-dimensional Minkowski space $\R^{1+2}$ to hyperbolic spaces $\H^m$, and then show (conditionally on a large data well-posedness claim for such wave…
We prove the existence of nonconstant harmonic maps of optimal regularity from an arbitrary closed manifold $(M^n,g)$ of dimension $n>2$ to any closed, non-aspherical manifold $N$ containing no stable minimal two-spheres. In particular,…
We study quasiconformal mappings in planar domains $\Omega$ and their regularity properties described in terms of Sobolev, Bessel potential or Triebel-Lizorkin scales. This leads to optimal conditions, in terms of the geometry of the…
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We prove Hoelder continuity for n/2-harmonic maps from subsets of Rn into a sphere. This extends a recent one-dimensional result by F. Da Lio and T. Riviere to arbitrary dimensions. The proof relies on compensation effects which we quantify…
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We consider solutions to the Cauchy problem for an internal-wave model derived by Camassa-Choi in a paper in Journal of Fluid Mechanics (1996). This model is a natural generalization of the Benjamin-Ono and Intermediate Long Wave equations…
We provide a new analysis of the Boltzmann equation with constant collision kernel in two space dimensions. The scaling-critical Lebesgue space is $L^2_{x,v}$; we prove global well-posedness and a version of scattering, assuming that the…
This article represents a first step toward understanding the long-time dynamics of solutions for the Intermediate Long Wave equation (ILW). While this problem is known to be both completely integrable and globally well-posed in…
We study the long time behavior of the subcritical (subcubic) defocussing nonlinear wave equation on the three dimensional ball, for random data of low regularity. We prove that for a large set of radial initial data in $\cap_{s<1/2}…
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