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

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/24/8/005zbMATH Open1226.58006arXiv1101.0713OpenAlexW2049048873MaRDI QIDQ3173382FDOQ3173382

Piotr Bizoń, Paweł Biernat

Publication date: 10 October 2011

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

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 $T_1<T_2<\mathrm{...}<T_k<infty$ 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 $T_i$, and eventually the solution comes to rest at the zero energy constant map.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.0713

zbMATH Keywords

self-similar solutionslinear stabilityheat flow equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20) Self-similar solutions to PDEs (35C06) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35)

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