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Infinite time blow-up for half-harmonic map flow from $\mathbb{R}$ into $\mathbb{S}^1$

Analysis of PDEs 2017-11-16 v1

Abstract

We study infinite time blow-up phenomenon for the half-harmonic map flow \begin{equation}\label{e:main00} \left\{\begin{array}{ll} u_t = -(-\Delta)^{\frac{1}{2}}u + \left(\frac{1}{2\pi}\int_{\mathbb{R}}\frac{|u(x)-u(s)|^2}{|x-s|^2}ds\right)u\quad\text{ in }\mathbb{R}\times (0, \infty), u(\cdot, 0) = u_0\quad\text{ in }\mathbb{R}, \end{array} \right. \end{equation} with a function u:R×[0,)S1u:\mathbb{R}\times [0, \infty)\to \mathbb{S}^1. Let q1,,qkq_1,\cdots, q_k be distinct points in R\mathbb{R}, there exist an initial datum u0u_0 and smooth functions ξj(t)qj\xi_j(t)\to q_j, 0<μj(t)00<\mu_j(t)\to 0, as t+t\to +\infty, j=1,,kj = 1, \cdots, k, such that the solution uqu_q of Problem (\ref{e:main00}) has the form \begin{equation*} u_q =\omega_\infty +\sum_{j= 1}^k \left(\omega (\frac{x-\xi_j(t)}{\mu_j(t)} )-\omega_\infty \right)+\theta(x, t), \end{equation*} where ω\omega is the canonical least energy half-harmonic map, ω=(1)\omega_\infty=\begin{pmatrix} 1 \end{pmatrix} , θ(x,t)0\theta(x, t)\to 0 as t+t\to +\infty, uniformly away from the points qjq_j. In addition, the parameter functions μj(t)\mu_j(t) decay to 00 exponentially.

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@article{arxiv.1711.05387,
  title  = {Infinite time blow-up for half-harmonic map flow from $\mathbb{R}$ into $\mathbb{S}^1$},
  author = {Yannick Sire and Juncheng Wei and Youquan Zheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.05387},
  year   = {2017}
}
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