Global existence of smooth solution to evolutionary Faddeev model with short-pulse data

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the Cauchy problem of the evolutionary Faddeev model, a system that maps from the Minkowski space ${\mathbb{R}}^{1+3}$ to the unit sphere ${\mathbb{S}}^2$. The model is a system of nonlinear wave equations whose nonlinearities exhibit a null structure and include semilinear terms, quasilinear terms, and the unknowns themselves. By considering a class of large initial data (in energy norm) of the short pulse type, we prove that the evolutionary Faddeev model admits a globally smooth solution via energy estimates. The main result is achieved through the selection of appropriate multipliers that are specially adapted to the geometry of the system.

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