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February  2013, 33(2): 739-755. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.739

Uniqueness of harmonic map heat flows and liquid crystal flows

Junyu Lin 1,

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Department of Mathematics, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640

Received  July 2011 Revised  January 2012 Published  September 2012

In this paper, we prove a limiting uniqueness criterion to harmonic map heat flows and liquid crystal flows. We firstly establish the uniqueness of harmonic map heat flows from $R^n$ to a smooth, compact Riemannian manifold $N$ in the class $C([0,T),BMO_T(R^n,N))\cap L^\infty_{loc}((0,T);\dot{W}^{1,\infty}(R^n))$ for $0< T ≤ +\infty.$ For the nematic liquid crystal flows $(v,d)$, we show that the mild solution is unique under the class $C([0,T),BMO_T^{-1}(R^n))\cap L^\infty_{loc}((0,T);L^\infty(R^n))\times C([0,T),BMO_T(R^n,S^2))\cap L^\infty_{loc}((0,T);\dot{W}^{1,\infty}(R^n))$ for $0< T ≤ +\infty.$
Keywords: liquid crystal flows, Heat flow, uniqueness, mild solution., harmonic maps.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 35Q35, 35K55, 76D03,76N1.
Citation: Junyu Lin. Uniqueness of harmonic map heat flows and liquid crystal flows. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2013, 33 (2) : 739-755. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.739
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J. Jost, Ein existenzbeiweis fiir harmonisch Abbildungen, die ein Dirichlet problem 16sen mittels der methode des warmeflusses,, Manuscripta Math., 34 (1981), 17.  doi: 10.1007/BF01168706.  Google Scholar

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J. Y. Lin and S. J. Ding, On the well-posedness for the heat flow of harmonic maps and hydrodynamic flow of nematic liquid crystals in critical spaces,, Math. Meth. Appl. Sciences, ().  doi: 10.1002/mma.1548.  Google Scholar

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M. Struwe, On the evolution of harmonic maps in higher dimensions,, J. Diff. Geom., 28 (1988), 485.   Google Scholar

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M. Struwe, On the evolution of harmonic maps of Riemannian surfaces,, Comment. Math. Helv, 60 (1985), 558.  doi: 10.1007/BF02567432.  Google Scholar

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C. Wang, Well-posedness for the heat flow of harmonic maps and the liquid crystal flow with rough initial data,, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal., 200 (2011), 1.   Google Scholar

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References:
[1]

Y. Chen and W. Y. Ding, Blow up and global existence for heat flows of harmonic maps,, Invent. Math., 99 (1990), 567.  doi: 10.1007/BF01234431.  Google Scholar

[2]

K. Chang, W. Ding and R. Ye, Finite time blow-up of the heat flow of harmonic maps from surfaces,, JDG, 36 (1992), 507.   Google Scholar

[3]

J. M. Coron and J. M. Ghidaglia, Explosion en temps fini pour le flot des applications harmoniques,, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 308 (1989), 339.   Google Scholar

[4]

Y. Chen and M. Struwe, Existence and partial regularity results for the heat flow of harmonic maps,, Math. Z., 201 (1989), 83.  doi: 10.1007/BF01161997.  Google Scholar

[5]

J. L. Ericksen, Hydrostatic theory of liquid crystal,, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal., 9 (1962), 371.   Google Scholar

[6]

J. Eells and J. Sampson, Harmonic mappings of Riemannian manifolds,, Amer. J. Math., 86 (1964), 109.  doi: 10.2307/2373037.  Google Scholar

[7]

A. Freire, Uniqueness for the harmonic map flow from surfaces to general targets,, Comm. Math. Helvetici., 70 (1995), 310.  doi: 10.1007/BF02566010.  Google Scholar

[8]

P. G. de Gennes and J. Prost, "The Physics of Liquid Crystals,", New York, (1993).   Google Scholar

[9]

J. Jost, Ein existenzbeiweis fiir harmonisch Abbildungen, die ein Dirichlet problem 16sen mittels der methode des warmeflusses,, Manuscripta Math., 34 (1981), 17.  doi: 10.1007/BF01168706.  Google Scholar

[10]

H. Koch and D. Tataru, Well-posedness for theNavier-Stokes equations,, Adv. Math., 157 (2001), 22.  doi: 10.1006/aima.2000.1937.  Google Scholar

[11]

F. M. Leslie, Some constitutive equations for liquid crystals,, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal., 28 (1968), 265.  doi: 10.1007/BF00251810.  Google Scholar

[12]

J. Y. Lin and S. J. Ding, On the well-posedness for the heat flow of harmonic maps and hydrodynamic flow of nematic liquid crystals in critical spaces,, Math. Meth. Appl. Sciences, ().  doi: 10.1002/mma.1548.  Google Scholar

[13]

F. Lin and C. Liu, Nonparabolic dissipative systems modeling the flow of liquid crystals,, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 48 (1995), 501.   Google Scholar

[14]

F. Lin and C. Liu, Partial regularities of nonlinear disspative systems modeling the flow of liquid crystals,, DCDS, 2 (1996), 1.   Google Scholar

[15]

F. Lin and C. Liu, Existence of solutions for the Ericksen-Leslie system,, Arch. Rational Mech. Aanl., 154 (2000), 135.   Google Scholar

[16]

F. H. Lin, J. Y. Lin and C. Y. Wang, Liquid crystal flow in two dimensions,, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 197 (2010), 297.  doi: 10.1007/s00205-009-0278-x.  Google Scholar

[17]

F. Lin and C. Wang, On the uniqueness of heat flow of harmonic maps and hydrodynamic flow of nematic liquid crystals,, Chinese Annals of Mathematics, 31 (2010), 921.  doi: 10.1007/s11401-010-0612-5.  Google Scholar

[18]

H. Miura, Remark on uniqueness of mild solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations,, J. Funt. Anal., 218 (2005), 110.  doi: 10.1016/j.jfa.2004.07.007.  Google Scholar

[19]

M. Struwe, On the evolution of harmonic maps in higher dimensions,, J. Diff. Geom., 28 (1988), 485.   Google Scholar

[20]

A. Soyeur, A global existence result for the heat flow of harmonic maps,, Comm. PDE, 15 (1990), 237.  doi: 10.1080/03605309908820685.  Google Scholar

[21]

M. Struwe, On the evolution of harmonic maps of Riemannian surfaces,, Comment. Math. Helv, 60 (1985), 558.  doi: 10.1007/BF02567432.  Google Scholar

[22]

C. Wang, Well-posedness for the heat flow of harmonic maps and the liquid crystal flow with rough initial data,, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal., 200 (2011), 1.   Google Scholar

[23]

X. Xu and Z. Zhang, Global regularity and uniqueness of weak solution for the 2-D liquid crystal flows,, JDE, 252 (2012), 1169.  doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2011.08.028.  Google Scholar

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