Global regularity conjecture for wave maps

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Let S{\mathcal S} be the space of classical data (ϕ0,ϕ1)(\phi_0,\phi_1), where ϕ0:R2→H\phi_0:{\mathbf R}^2\to{\mathbf H} is Schwartz modulo constants and ϕ1:R2→TH\phi_1:{\mathbf R}^2\to T{\mathbf H} is Schwartz with ϕ1(x)∈Tϕ0(x)H\phi_1(x)\in T_{\phi_0(x)}{\mathbf H} for every xx. A classical wave map is a map ϕ:R×R2→H\phi:{\mathbf R}\times{\mathbf R}^2\to{\mathbf H} solving the wave-map equation, with initial data ϕ[0]=(ϕ0,ϕ1)\phi[0]=(\phi_0,\phi_1). Global regularity for wave maps. For every (ϕ0,ϕ1)∈S(\phi_0,\phi_1)\in{\mathcal S} there exists a unique global classical wave map

ϕ:R×R2→H\phi:{\mathbf R}\times{\mathbf R}^2\to{\mathbf H}

with ϕ[0]=(ϕ0,ϕ1)\phi[0]=(\phi_0,\phi_1). This is the global regularity problem for energy-critical wave maps from 2+12+1-dimensional Minkowski space into the hyperbolic target; the paper and its predecessors aim to prove it, so the conjecture remains open in the supplied source context.

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Terence Tao, “Global regularity of wave maps VII. Control of delocalised or dispersed solutions”, arXiv:0908.0776 (2009).

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