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Near soliton evolution for equivariant Schrödinger Maps in two spatial dimensions

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Ioan Bejenaru, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 and Daniel Tataru, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720

Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year: 2014; Volume 228, Number 1069
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-9215-2 (print); 978-1-4704-1481-8 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/1069
Published electronically: July 11, 2013
MSC: Primary 58J35; Secondary 35B65

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Table of Contents

Chapters

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. An outline of the paper
  • 3. The Coulomb gauge representation of the equation
  • 4. Spectral analysis for the operators $H$, $\tilde H$; the $X,L X$ spaces
  • 5. The linear $\tilde H$ Schrödinger equation
  • 6. The time dependent linear evolution
  • 7. Analysis of the gauge elements in $X,LX$
  • 8. The nonlinear equation for $\psi$
  • 9. The bootstrap estimate for the $\lambda$ parameter.
  • 10. The bootstrap argument
  • 11. The $\dot H^1$ instability result

Abstract

We consider the Schrödinger Map equation in $2+1$ dimensions, with values into $\mathbb {S}^2$. This admits a lowest energy steady state $Q$, namely the stereographic projection, which extends to a two dimensional family of steady states by scaling and rotation. We prove that $Q$ is unstable in the energy space $\dot H^1$. However, in the process of proving this we also show that within the equivariant class $Q$ is stable in a stronger topology $X \subset \dot H^1$.

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