The fractional Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation and the heat flow of harmonic maps (Q635763)

The authors prove the existence of global weak solutions to the periodic fractional Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation \[ \begin{cases} u_t =\gamma u \times \Lambda^{2 \alpha} u+\lambda u \times(u \times \Lambda^{2 \alpha} u) \\ u(0)=u_0 \in H ^{\alpha} \end{cases}\tag{a} \] through the Ginzburg-Landau approximation and the Galerkin approximation. Since the nonlinear term is nonlocal and of full order of the equation, some special structures of the equation, the commutator estimate and some calculus inequalities of fractional order are exploited to get the convergence of the approximating solutions. Equation (a) can also be considered as a generalization of the heat flow of harmonic maps to fractional order. The tools used in the article are Fourier transforms, Banach spaces and Sobolov spaces.