Applied Mathematics Seminar- Two-bubble dynamics for the equivariant wave maps equation

Speaker: Jacek Jendrej (postdoc at Univ of Chicago)
Date and time: Wednesday, September 13, 11am-12noon 
Place: Rome 202
Title: Two-bubble dynamics for the equivariant wave maps equation

Abstract:  I will consider the energy-critical wave maps equation with values in the sphere in the equivariant case, that is for symmetric initial data. It is known that if the initial data has small energy, then the corresponding solution scatters. Moreover, the initial data of any scattering solution has topological degree 0. I try to answer the following question: what are the non-scattering solutions of topological degree 0 and the least possible energy? Such "threshold" solutions would have to decompose asymptotically into a superposition of two ground states at different scales, with no radiation.