Threshold dynamics for corotational wave maps

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Abstract: We study the dynamics of corotational wave maps from mathbbR1+2ightarrowmathbbS2 at threshold energy. It is known that topologically trivial wave maps with energy <8pi are global and scatter to a constant map. In this work, we prove that a corotational wave map with energy equal to 8pi is globally defined and scatters in one time direction, and in the other time direction, either the map is globally defined and scatters, or the map breaks down in finite time and converges to a superposition of two harmonic maps. The latter behavior stands in stark contrast to higher equivariant wave maps with threshold energy which have been proven to be globally defined for all time. Using techniques developed in this paper, we also construct a corotational wave map with energy =8pi which blows up in finite time. The blow-up solution we construct provides the first example of a minimal topologically trivial non-dispersing solution to the full wave map evolution.


In this paper, the author studied the dynamics of corotational wave maps from \(\mathbb{R}^{1+2}\) to \(\mathbb{S}^2\) at threshold energy. It follows from [\textit{A. Lawrie} and \textit{S.-J. Oh}, Commun. Math. Phys. 342, No. 3, 989--999 (2016; Zbl 1336.58017)] that topologically trivial wave maps with energy smaller than \(8\pi\) are global and scatter to a constant map. In this paper, the author proved that a corotational wave map with energy equal to \(8\pi\) is globally defined and scatters in one time direction, and in the other time direction, either the map is globally defined and scatters, or the map breaks down in finite time and converges to a superposition of two harmonic maps. The latter behavior stands in stark contrast to higher equivariant wave maps with threshold energy, which have been proven to be globally defined for all time. Using techniques developed in this paper, the author also constructed a corotational wave map with energy equal to \(8\pi\) which blows up in finite time. Such blow-up solution provided the first example of a minimal topologically trivial nondispersing solution to the full wave map evolution.



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