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On energy-critical half-wave maps into $\mathbb{S}^2$ (1702.05995v2)

Published 20 Feb 2017 in math.AP, math-ph, math.DG, math.MP, and math.SP

Abstract: We consider the energy-critical half-wave maps equation $$\partial_t \mathbf{u} + \mathbf{u} \wedge |\nabla| \mathbf{u} = 0$$ for $\mathbf{u} : [0,T) \times \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{S}2$. We give a complete classification of all traveling solitary waves with finite energy. The proof is based on a geometric characterization of these solutions as minimal surfaces with (not necessarily free) boundary on $\mathbb{S}2$. In particular, we discover an explicit Lorentz boost symmetry, which is implemented by the conformal M\"obius group on the target $\mathbb{S}2$ applied to half-harmonic maps from $\mathbb{R}$ to $\mathbb{S}2$. Complementing our classification result, we carry out a detailed analysis of the linearized operator $L$ around half-harmonic maps $\mathbf{Q}$ with arbitrary degree $m \geq 1$. Here we explicitly determine the nullspace including the zero-energy resonances; in particular, we prove the nondegeneracy of $\mathbf{Q}$. Moreover, we give a full description of the spectrum of $L$ by finding all its $L2$-eigenvalues and proving their simplicity. Furthermore, we prove a coercivity estimate for $L$ and we rule out embedded eigenvalues inside the essential spectrum. Our spectral analysis is based on a reformulation in terms of certain Jacobi operators (tridiagonal infinite matrices) obtained from a conformal transformation of the spectral problem posed on $\mathbb{R}$ to the unit circle $\mathbb{S}$. Finally, we construct a unitary map which can be seen as a gauge transform tailored for a future stability and blowup analysis close to half-harmonic maps. Our spectral results also have potential applications to the half-harmonic map heat flow, which is the parabolic counterpart of the half-wave maps equation.

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