Global regularity of wave maps IV. Absence of stationary or self-similar solutions in the energy class

arXiv0806.3592MaRDI QIDQ6210010FDOQ6210010

Authors: Terence Tao 

Publication date: 22 June 2008

Abstract: Using the harmonic map heat flow, we construct an energy class for wave maps $phi$ from two-dimensional Minkowski space $R^{1+2}$ to hyperbolic spaces $H^m$, and then show (conditionally on a large data well-posedness claim for such wave maps) that no stationary, travelling, self-similar, or degenerate wave maps exist in this energy class. These results form three of the five claims required in our earlier paper (arXiv:0805.4666) to prove global regularity for such wave maps. (The conditional claim of large data well-posedness is one of the remaining claims required in that paper.)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Second-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L70)

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