On collapse of wave maps (Q720693)

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    On collapse of wave maps
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5956445

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      On collapse of wave maps (English)
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      11 October 2011
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      In this paper, the authors derive the universal collapse law of degree 1 equivariant wave maps (solutions of the sigma model) from the 2 + 1 Minkowski space-time, to the 2-sphere. To this end, they introduce a nonlinear transformation from original variables to blowup ones. Furthermore, the formal derivations are confirmed by numerical simulations.
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      wave maps
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      sigma model
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      collapse
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      blowup
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      nonlinear wave equation
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      harmonic map
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