Infinite time bubbling for the SU(2) Yang-Mills heat flow on \mathbb{R}^4

arXiv2208.13875MaRDI QIDQ6409176FDOQ6409176

Authors: Yannick Sire, Juncheng Wei, Youquan Zheng 

Publication date: 29 August 2022

Abstract: We investigate the long time behaviour of the Yang-Mills heat flow on the bundle $mathbb{R}^{4}imesSU(2)$. Waldron cite{Waldron2019} proved global existence and smoothness of the flow on closed $4-$manifolds, leaving open the issue of the behaviour in infinite time. We exhibit two types of long-time bubbling: first we construct an initial data and a globally defined solution which {sl blows-up} in infinite time at a given point in $mathbb{R}^4$. Second, we prove the existence of {sl bubble-tower} solutions, also in infinite time. This answers the basic dynamical properties of the heat flow of Yang-Mills connection in the critical dimension $4$ and shows in particular that in general one cannot expect that this gradient flow converges to a Yang-Mills connection. We emphasize that we do not assume for the first result any symmetry assumption; whereas the second result on the existence of the bubble-tower is in the $SO(4)$-equivariant class, but nevertheless new.

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