Minimal-energy blowup solution conjecture for wave maps

Let H˙1\dot{\mathcal H}^1 be the wave-map energy space, and let an energy-class solution be a restriction of a maximal Cauchy development to a subinterval. Such a solution ϕ:IH˙1\phi:I\to\dot{\mathcal H}^1 is almost periodic if there exist functions N:I(0,+)N:I\to(0,+\infty) and x:IR2x:I\to\mathbf R^2, and a compact set KH˙1K\subset\dot{\mathcal H}^1, such that

DilN(t)Transx(t)ϕ[t]K{\operatorname{Dil}}_{N(t)}{\operatorname{Trans}}_{-x(t)}\phi[t]\in K

for every tIt\in I. Minimal-energy blowup solution conjecture. If the global well-posedness conjecture fails, then there exists an almost periodic maximal Cauchy development ϕ:IH˙1\phi:I\to\dot{\mathcal H}^1 with non-zero energy. Earlier work established that all almost periodic maximal Cauchy developments have zero energy, so this reduction would rule out the failure of global well-posedness; the existence claim itself is the remaining assertion at this stage.

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Terence Tao, “Global regularity of wave maps VI. Abstract theory of minimal-energy blowup solutions”, arXiv:0906.2833 (2009).

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