Type II Blow-up Mechanism for Supercritical Harmonic Map Heat Flow

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNX122zbMATH Open1427.35100arXiv1601.01831OpenAlexW2963544055MaRDI QIDQ5243293FDOQ5243293

Yukihiro Seki, Paweł Biernat

Publication date: 18 November 2019

Published in: IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The harmonic map heat flow is a geometric flow well known to produce solutions whose gradient blows up in finite time. A popular model for investigating the blow-up is the heat flow for maps $mathbb{R}^{d}o{S}^d$, restricted to equivariant maps. This model displays a variety of possible blow-up mechanisms, examples include self-similar solutions for $3ledle6$ and a so-called Type II blow-up in the critical dimension $d=2$. Here we present the first constructive example of Type II blow-up in higher dimensions: for each $dge7$ we construct a countable family of Type II solutions, each characterized by a different blow-up rate. We study the mechanism behind the formation of these singular solutions and we relate the blow-up to eigenvalues associated to linearization of the harmonic map heat flow around the equatorial map. Some of the solutions constructed by us were already observed numerically.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.01831

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic mapheat flowself-similar solutionsupercriticalgradient blow-up

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20) Blow-up in context of PDEs (35B44) Second-order parabolic systems (35K40) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Geometric evolution equations (53E99)

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