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The global characteristic initial value problem for linear wave equations on globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds is examined, for a class of smooth initial value hypersurfaces satisfying favourable global properties. First it is shown…

There has been much progress in recent years in understanding the existence problem for wave maps with small critical Sobolev norm (in particular for two-dimensional wave maps with small energy); a key aspect in that theory has been a…

We consider the Schr\"{o}dinger map initial-value problem in dimension two or greater. We prove that the Schr\"{o}dinger map initial-value problem admits a unique global smooth solution, provided that the initial data is smooth and small in…

We prove global well-posedness for the half-wave map with $S^2$ target for small $\dot{H}^{\frac{n}{2}} \times \dot{H}^{\frac{n}{2}-1}$ initial data. We also prove the global well-posedness for the equation with $\mathbb{H}^2$ target for…

In this article we prove a Sacks-Uhlenbeck/Struwe type global regularity result for wave-maps $\Phi:\mathbb{R}^{2+1}\to\mathcal{M}$ into general compact target manifolds $\mathcal{M}$.

Assuming initial data have small weighted $H^4\times H^3$ norm, we prove global existence of solutions to the Cauchy problem for systems of quasi-linear wave equations in three space dimensions satisfying the null condition of Klainerman.…

We establish the existence of weak global solutions of the half-wave maps equation with the target $S^2$ on $\mathbb{R}^{1+1}$ with large initial data in $\dot{H}^1 \cap \dot{H}^{\frac{1}{2}}(\mathbb{R})$. We first prove the global…

Considering $1+n$ dimensional semilinear wave equations with energy supercritical powers $p> 1+4/(n-2)$, we obtain global solutions for any initial data with small norm in $H^{s_c}\times H^{s_c-1}$, under the technical smooth condition…

In this article, we investigate the regularity for certain elliptic systems without a $L^2$-antisymmetric structure. As applications, we prove some $\epsilon$-regularity theorems for weakly harmonic maps from the unit ball $B= B(m) \subset…

In this paper and the companion work \cite{LIZE2}, we prove that the Schr\"odinger map flows from $\Bbb R^d$ with $d\ge 2$ to compact K\"ahler manifolds with small initial data in critical Sobolev spaces are global. The main difficulty…

This is the final paper in the series \cite{tao:heatwave}, \cite{tao:heatwave2}, \cite{tao:heatwave3}, \cite{tao:heatwave4} that establishes global regularity for two-dimensional wave maps into hyperbolic targets. In this paper we establish…

The nonlinear wave equation $u_{tt}-\Delta u +|u_t|^{p-1}u_t=0$ is shown to be globally well-posed in the Sobolev spaces of radially symmetric functions $H^k_{\rm rad}({\bf R}^3)\times H^{k-1}_{\rm rad}({\bf R}^3)$ for all $p\geq 3$ and…

In three previous papers by the two first authors, classes of initial data to the three dimensional, incompressible Navier-Stokes equations were presented, generating a global smooth solution although the norm of the initial data may be…

We consider the problem of small data global existence for a class of semilinear wave equations with null condition on a Lorentzian background $(\mathbb{R}^{3+1}, g)$ with a \textbf{time dependent metric $g$} coinciding with Minkowski…

We consider the problem of small data global existence for quasilinear wave equations with null condition on a class of Lorentzian manifolds $(\mathbb{R}^{3+1}, g)$ with \textbf{time dependent} inhomogeneous metric. We show that…

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…

We show that the positive mass theorem holds for continuous Riemannian metrics that lie in the Sobolev space $W^{2, n/2}_{loc}$ for manifolds of dimension less than or equal to $7$ or spin-manifolds of any dimension. More generally, we give…

We are interested in the stability of a class of totally geodesic wave maps, as recently studied by Abbrescia and Chen, and later by Duan and Ma. The relevant equations of motion are a system of coupled semilinear wave and Klein-Gordon…

We prove almost global existence for multiple speed quasilinear wave equations with quadratic nonlinearities in three spatial dimensions. We prove new results both for Minkowski space and also for nonlinear Dirichlet-wave equations outside…

We prove the existence of global solutions to the nonlinear wave equation in $\mathbb{R}^{1+3}$ $$\Phi_{tt} - \Delta \Phi \pm \Phi|\Phi|^{p-1} = 0$$ in the energy-supercritical regime $p>5$, for a class of large initial data. Our initial…