Development of Singularities of the Skyrme Model

2018/03/29 by McNulty, Michael
#Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1803.11279

Abstract

The Skyrme model is a geometric field theory and a quasilinear modification of the Nonlinear Sigma Model (Wave Maps). In this paper we study the development of singularities for the equivariant Skyrme Model, in the strong-field limit, where the restoration of scale invariance allows us to look for self-similar blow-up behavior. After introducing the Skyrme Model and reviewing what's known about formation of singularities in equivariant Wave Maps, we prove the existence of smooth self-similar solutions to the 5+1-dimensional Skyrme Model in the strong-field limit, and use that to conclude that the solution to the corresponding Cauchy problem blows up in finite time, starting from a particular class of everywhere smooth initial data.

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