Small data global regularity for wave maps

ID: small-data-global-regularity-for-wave-maps

Smooth compatible data sufficiently small in high weighted Sobolev norms relative to a constant map produce global smooth wave maps in three and four spatial dimensions. In four dimensions, derivative decay is time-integrable and closes commuted wave energy estimates. In three dimensions the weaker decay requires the cancellation of null forms for wave equations, exploited by the vector field method for wave equations. These classical localized-data statements do not assert global regularity from small supercritical energy alone.

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