Generalized Landau-Lifshitz systems and harmonic maps (Q674720)

The authors generalize the Landau-Lifshitz coupled evolution system to one for maps from a Riemannian manifold \(M\) into the unit sphere \(S^{n-1}\). For \(M\) a closed Riemann surface, they establish a global weak (smooth) solution when the energy of the initial map is small. In addition, they derive the existence of a unique global weak solution with initial map in \(H^1 (M,S^{n-1})\), regular except possibly at finitely many points. Some relations between the solutions and harmonic maps of \(M\) into \(S^{n-1}\) are also pointed out.