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 tTt\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 tTt\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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