Infinite time blow-up solutions to the energy critical wave maps equation

DOI10.1090/MEMO/1407zbMATH Open1521.35002arXiv1905.00167MaRDI QIDQ6318043FDOQ6318043

Authors: Mohandas Pillai 

Publication date: 30 April 2019

Abstract: We consider the wave maps problem with domain $mathbb{R}^{2+1}$ and target $mathbb{S}^2$ in the 1-equivariant, topological degree one setting. In this setting, we recall that the soliton is a harmonic map from $mathbb{R}^2$ to $mathbb{S}^2$, with polar angle equal to $Q_1(r)=2arctan(r)$. By applying the scaling symmetry of the equation, $Q_{lambda}(r)=Q_1(rlambda)$ is also a harmonic map, and the family of all such $Q_{lambda}$ are the unique minimizers of the harmonic map energy among finite energy, 1-equivariant, topological degree one maps. In this work, we construct infinite time blowup solutions along the $Q_{lambda}$ family. More precisely, for $b>0$, and for all $lambd{a}_{0,0,b}in{C}^{infty}([100,infty))$ satisfying, for some $C_l,C_{m,k}>0$, ${\displaystyle }$frac{C_{l}}{log^{b}(t)} leq lambda_{0,0,b}(t) leq frac{C_{m}}{log^{b}(t)}, quad |lambda_{0,0,b}^{(k)}(t)| leq frac{C_{m,k}}{t^{k} log^{b+1}(t) }, kgeq 1 quad t geq 100${\displaystyle }$ there exists a wave map with the following properties. If $u_b$ denotes the polar angle of the wave map into $mathbb{S}^2$, we have ${\displaystyle }$u_{b}(t,r) = Q_{frac{1}{lambda_{b}(t)}}(r) + v_{2}(t,r) + v_{e}(t,r), quad t geq T_{0}${\displaystyle }$ where ${\displaystyle }$-partial_{tt}v_{2}+partial_{rr}v_{2}+frac{1}{r}partial_{r}v_{2}-frac{v_{2}}{r^{2}}=0${\displaystyle }$ ${\displaystyle }$||partial_{t}(Q_{frac{1}{lambda_{b}(t)}}+v_{e})||_{L^{2}(r dr)}^{2}+||frac{v_{e}}{r}||_{L^{2}(r dr)}^{2} + ||partial_{r}v_{e}||_{L^{2}(r dr)}^{2} leq frac{C}{t^{2} log^{2b}(t)}, quad t geq T_{0}${\displaystyle }$ and ${\displaystyle }$lambda_{b}(t) = lambda_{0,0,b}(t) + Oleft(frac{1}{log^{b}(t) sqrt{log(log(t))}} ight)${\displaystyle }$

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton solutions (35C08) Blow-up in context of PDEs (35B44) Second-order semilinear hyperbolic equations (35L71) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to partial differential equations (35-02) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75)

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