Publication Date
2003
Journal or Book Title
Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics
Abstract
We study the question of well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for Schr¨odinger maps from R 1 ×R 2 to the sphere S 2 or to H2 , the hyperbolic space. The idea is to choose an appropriate gauge change so that the derivatives of the map will satisfy a certain nonlinear Schr¨odinger system of equations and then study this modified Schr¨odinger map system (MSM). We then prove local well posedness of the Cauchy problem for the MSM with minimal regularity assumptions on the data and outline a method to derive well posedness of the Schr¨odinger map itself from it. In proving well posedness of the MSM, the heart of the matter is resolved by considering truly quatrilinear forms of weighted L 2 functions.
Pages
114-151
Volume
56
Issue
1
Recommended Citation
Nahmod, Andrea R.; Stefanov, Atanas; and Uhlenbeck, Karen, "On Schrodinger Maps" (2003). Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics. 743.
Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umass.edu/math_faculty_pubs/743
Comments
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Publisher's version is here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cpa.10054/full
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.10054