Stable Soliton Resolution for Wave Maps on a Curved Spacetime

Download or read book Stable Soliton Resolution for Wave Maps on a Curved Spacetime written by Casey Paul Rodriguez and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We consider equivariant wave maps from the previously described spacetime into the 3–sphere, S3. Each equivariant wave map can be indexed by its equivariance class l ∈ N and topological degree n ∈ N ∪ {0}. For each l and n, we prove that there exists a unique energy minimizing l-equivariant harmonic map Ql,n : R × (R × S2) → S3 of degree n. Based on mixed numerical and analytic evidence, Bizon and Kahl conjectured that all equivariant wave maps settle down to the harmonic map in the same equivariance and degree class by radiating off excess energy. In this thesis, we prove this conjecture rigorously and establish stable soliton resolution for this model; first for l = 1 (corotational maps) in Chapter 2, and then for general l > 1 in Chapter 3. More precisely, we show that modulo a free radiation term, every l-equivariant wave map of degree n converges strongly to Ql,n .