On the formation of singularities in the critical O(3) -model

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2010.172.187zbMATH Open1213.35392arXivmath/0605023OpenAlexW1966644690MaRDI QIDQ990175FDOQ990175

Igor Rodnianski, Jacob Sterbenz

Publication date: 6 September 2010

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the phenomena of energy concentration for the critical O(3) sigma model, also known as the wave map flow from R^{2+1} Minkowski space into the sphere S^2. We establish rigorously and constructively existence of a set of smooth initial data resulting in a dynamic finite time formation of singularities. The construction and analysis is done in the context of the k-equivariant symmetry reduction, and we restrict to maps with homotopy class k>3. The concentration mechanism we uncover is essentially due to a resonant self-focusing (shrinking) of a corresponding harmonic map. We show that the phenomenon is generic (e.g. in certain Sobolev spaces) and persists under small perturbations of initial data, while the resulting blowup is bounded by a log-modified self-similar asymptotic.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0605023

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zbMATH Keywords

self-similarityformation of singularitieswave mapenergy concentration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75)

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