Finite energy global well-posedness of the Yang-Mills equations on R^1+3: an approach using the Yang-Mills heat flow

DOI10.1215/00127094-3119953MaRDI QIDQ2354906zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sungjin Oh

Publication date 27 July 2015

Published in Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1557, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.dmj/1434377459

zbMATH Keywords

finite energygauge choiceglobal well-posednessYang-Mills equationsYang-Mills heat flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: In this work, along with the companion work Oh (2012), we propose a novel approach to the problem of gauge choice for the emph{Yang-Mills equations} on the Minkowski space $mathbb{R}^{1+3}$. A crucial ingredient is the associated emph{Yang-Mills heat flow}. As this approach does not possess the drawbacks of the previous approaches (as in Klainerman-Machedon (1995) and Tao (2003)), it is expected to be more robust and easily adaptable to other settings. Building on the results proved in the companion article Oh (2012), we prove, as one of the first applications of our approach, finite energy global well-posedness of the Yang-Mills equations on $mathbb{R}^{1+3}$. This is a classical result first proved by S. Klainerman and M. Machedon (1995) using local Coulomb gauges. As opposed to their method, the present approach avoids the use of Uhlenbeck's lemma (1982), and hence does emph{not} involve localization in space-time.

Review text

The purpose of this article is to study the behaviour of the energy for a generalization of Maxwells equation, the Yang-Mills equations. After presenting a system of equations for the Yang-Mills tension field, a gauge is chosen, which does not involve localization in space-time, and which is also suitable for large input values. Then the Yang-Mills heat flow is defined as the solution of a certain tensor PDE. The main result of the paper is to show that the energy controls the growth of a certain norm as \(| t | \to \pm \infty\), which implies that this norm is always finite. The proof consists of several steps and uses Hölders, Sobolev, Gagliardi-Nirenberg, energy integral, Bochner-Weitzenböck-type, Young's, Minkowski, Gronwall, triangle and Kato's inequalities, Duhamel's principle, Bianchis identity, weak maximim principle, Sobolev embedding, and a bootstrap argument. Finally, a list of the dependence to a companion paper, and a list of symbols are given. A monomental paper.

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