Gap eigenvalues and asymptotic dynamics of geometric wave equations on hyperbolic space

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Abstract: In this paper we study k-equivariant wave maps from the hyperbolic plane into the 2-sphere as well as the energy critical equivariant SU(2) Yang-Mills problem on 4-dimensional hyperbolic space. The latter problem bears many similarities to a 2-equivariant wave map into a surface of revolution. As in the case of 1-equivariant wave maps considered in~cite{LOS1}, both problems admit a family of stationary solutions indexed by a parameter that determines how far the image of the map wraps around the target manifold. Here we show that if the image of a stationary solution is contained in a geodesically convex subset of the target, then it is asymptotically stable in the energy space. However, for a stationary solution that covers a large enough portion of the target, we prove that the Schr"odinger operator obtained by linearizing about such a harmonic map admits a simple positive eigenvalue in the spectral gap. As there is no a priori nonlinear obstruction to asymptotic stability, this gives evidence for the existence of metastable states (i.e., solutions with anomalously slow decay rates) in these simple geometric models.









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