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We consider the half-wave maps equation $$ partial_t vec{S} = vec{S} wedge | abla| vec{S}, $$ where $vec{S}= vec{S}(t,x)$ takes values on the two-dimensional unit sphere $mathbb{S}^2$ and $x in mathbb{R}$ (real line case) or $x in mathbb{T}$ (periodic case). This an energy-critical Hamiltonian evolution equation recently introduced in cite{LS,Zh}, which formally arises as an effective evolution equation in the classical and continuum limit of Haldane-Shastry quantum spin chains. We prove that the half-wave maps equation admits a Lax pair and we discuss some analytic consequences of this finding. As a variant of our arguments, we also obtain a Lax pair for the half-wave maps equation with target $mathbb{H}^2$ (hyperbolic plane).
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We review the current state of results about the half-wave maps equation on the domain $mathbb{R}^d$ with target $mathbb{S}^2$. In particular, we focus on the energy-critical case $d=1$, where we discuss the classification of traveling solitary waves
and a Lax pair structure together with its implications (e.,g.~invariance of rational solutions and infinitely many conservation laws on a scale of homogeneous Besov spaces). Furthermore, we also comment on the one-dimensional space-periodic case. Finally, we list some open problem for future research.
We consider the quartic focusing Half Wave equation (HW) in one space dimension. We show first that that there exist traveling wave solutions with arbitrary small $H^{frac 12}(R)$ norm. This fact shows that small data scattering is not possible for (HW) equation and that below the ground state energy there are solutions whose energy travels as a localised packet and which preserve this localisation in time. This behaviour for (HW) is in sharp contrast with classical NLS in any dimension and with fractional NLS with radial data. The second result addressed is the non existence of traveling waves moving at the speed of light. The main ingredients of the proof are commutator estimates and a careful study of spatial decay of traveling waves profile using the harmonic extension to the upper half space.
We consider the energy-critical half-wave maps equation $$partial_t mathbf{u} + mathbf{u} wedge | abla| mathbf{u} = 0$$ 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 Mobius 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 $L^2$-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.
The KPII equation is an integrable nonlinear PDE in 2+1 dimensions (two spatial and one temporal), which arises in several physical circumstances, including fluid mechanics where it describes waves in shallow water. It provides a multidimensional generalisation of the renowned KdV equation. In this work, we employ a novel approach recently introduced by one of the authors in connection with the Davey-Stewartson equation cite{FDS2009}, in order to analyse the initial-boundary value problem for the KPII equation formulated on the half-plane. The analysis makes crucial use of the so-called d-bar formalism, as well as of the so-called global relation. A novel feature of boundary as opposed to initial-value problems in 2+1 is that the d-bar formalism now involves a function in the complex plane which is discontinuous across the real axis.
A new method for the solution of initial-boundary value problems for textit{linear} and textit{integrable nonlinear} evolution PDEs in one spatial dimension was introduced by one of the authors in 1997 cite{F1997}. This approach was subsequently extended to initial-boundary value problems for evolution PDEs in two spatial dimensions, first in the case of linear PDEs cite{F2002b} and, more recently, in the case of integrable nonlinear PDEs, for the Davey-Stewartson and the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili II equations on the half-plane (see cite{FDS2009} and cite{MF2011} respectively). In this work, we study the analogous problem for the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili I equation; in particular, through the simultaneous spectral analysis of the associated Lax pair via a d-bar formalism, we are able to obtain an integral representation for the solution, which involves certain transforms of all the initial and the boundary values, as well as an identity, the so-called global relation, which relates these transforms in appropriate regions of the complex spectral plane.
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