Partial regularity of the heat flow of half-harmonic maps and applications to harmonic maps with free boundary. Issue 9 (2nd September 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hyder, Ali; Segatti, Antonio; Sire, Yannick; Wang, Changyou
• Is Part Of: Communications in partial differential equations. Volume 47:Issue 9(2022)
• Page Start: 1845
• Page End: 1882
• Publication Date: 2022-09-02
• Subjects: Ginzburg-Landau approximation -- harmonic maps with free boundary -- heat flow of fractional harmonic maps -- partial regularity; Differential equations, Partial -- Periodicals; 515.353
• DOI: 10.1080/03605302.2022.2091453
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0360-5302

Abstract

Abstract: We introduce a heat flow associated to half-harmonic maps, which have been introduced by Da Lio and Rivière. Those maps exhibit integrability by compensation in one space dimension and are related to harmonic maps with free boundary. We consider a new flow associated to these harmonic maps with free boundary which is actually motivated by a rather unusual heat flow for half-harmonic maps. We construct then weak solutions and prove their partial regularity in space and time via a Ginzburg-Landau approximation. The present paper complements the study initiated by Struwe and Chen-Lin.