Shrinkers, expanders, and the unique continuation beyond generic blowup in the heat flow for harmonic maps between spheres

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Abstract: Using mixed analytical and numerical methods we investigate the development of singularities in the heat flow for corotational harmonic maps from the d-dimensional sphere to itself for 3leqdleq6. By gluing together shrinking and expanding asymptotically self-similar solutions we construct global weak solutions which are smooth everywhere except for a sequence of times T1<T2<...<Tk<infty at which there occurs the type I blow-up at one of the poles of the sphere. We show that in the generic case the continuation beyond blow-up is unique, the topological degree of the map changes by one at each blow-up time Ti, and eventually the solution comes to rest at the zero energy constant map.









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