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Critical and Super-Critical Half-Wave Maps
Third-party funded project
Project title Critical and Super-Critical Half-Wave Maps
Principal Investigator(s) Lenzmann, Enno
Organisation / Research unit Departement Mathematik und Informatik / Analysis (Lenzmann)
Project start 01.10.2016
Probable end 30.09.2019
Status Completed
Abstract

This proposal presents a research program for the half-wave maps equation, which is a novel class of geometric evolution equations with nonlocal dispersion. The half-wave maps equation arises as a universal model for the effective dynamics of systems describing spin chains with critical long-range interactions. In one space dimension (which is stronlgy relevant to physical applications), the half-wave maps equation possesses  simultaneously  the remarkable features of energy-criticality, conformal invariance of the energy, and explicitly known (static and traveling) solitary waves indexed by a topological degree. The present proposal sets forth work concerning well-posedness of the Cauchy problem, stability of solitary waves, possible singularity formation (blowup), as well as the rigorous derivation of the half-wave maps equation from microscopic models. Furthermore, possible connections of the energy-critical half-wave maps equation to the completely integrable spin chain systems of Haldane-Shastry and Calogero-Moser-Sutherland are planned to be explored.

 

In recent years, the area of geometric dispersive PDEs has seen fundamental breakthroughs concerning optimal well-posedness and the analytic insight into singularity formation. Compared to the landmark models, i.e. the wave maps and Schrödinger maps equations, the half-wave maps equation exhibits new intriguing phenomena, which come with strong motivations from physics (completely integrable spin chains) and differential geometry (conformal invariance). In view of this, the study of half-wave maps offers a natural field for future contributions to state-of-the-art research  of geometric PDEs.
The work proposed below is planned for a total duration of 36 months. More specifically, the proposed project is supposed to involve the funding of one PhD position (Lars Bugiera) for 24 months (in the first two years of the project), as well as one post-doctoral position for 24 months (in the last two years of the project). Moreover, the applicant plans to collaborate with a list of internationally established researchers named below.

In recent years, the area of geometric dispersive PDEs has seen fundamental breakthroughs concerning optimal well-posedness and the analytic insight into singularity formation. Compared to the landmark models, i.e. the wave maps and Schrödinger maps equations, the half-wave maps equation exhibits new intriguing phenomena, which come with strong motivations from physics (completely integrable spin chains) and differential geometry (conformal invariance). In view of this, the study of half-wave maps offers a natural field for future contributions to state-of-the-art research  of geometric PDEs.
The work proposed below is planned for a total duration of 36 months. More specifically, the proposed project is supposed to involve the funding of one PhD position (Lars Bugiera) for 24 months (in the first two years of the project), as well as one post-doctoral position for 24 months (in the last two years of the project). Moreover, the applicant plans to collaborate with a list of internationally established researchers named below.

 

 

Financed by Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
   

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