On blowup for large data in equivariant wave maps

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Let u(t,r)u(t,r) solve the equivariant wave-map equation with initial data, and interpret sufficiently large energy as the hypothesis on the initial data. Finite-time blowup means that there is some T>0T>0 such that ur(t,0)u_r(t,0) diverges as t↗Tt\nearrow T.

On blowup for large data. For initial data with sufficiently large energy, the solutions of equation blow up in finite time in the sense that the derivative ur(t,0)u_r(t,0) diverges as t↗Tt\nearrow T for some T>0T>0.

This conjecture formulates the numerical observation that sufficiently energetic initial data develop a singularity in finite time. The supplied text gives no rigorous result establishing or refuting it, and does not provide a theorem describing the threshold for blowup.

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Piotr Bizoń, Tadeusz Chmaj and Zbislaw Tabor, “Formation of singularities for equivariant 2+1 dimensional wave maps into the two-sphere”, arXiv:math-ph/0011005 (2001).

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