On well-posedness of the s-Schrödinger maps in the subcritical regime
Ahmed Dughayshim
TL;DR
The paper proves local well-posedness for the s-Schrödinger map in dimensions n≥3 within the subcritical regime by reducing the geometric PDE to a scalar Schrödinger-type equation via stereographic projection. A sophisticated resolution-space framework is built (X_k, Y^e_{k,k'}, Z_k, F^σ, N^σ) to handle linear, smoothing, and maximal estimates, along with careful commutator and bilinear controls. The nonlinear terms, which feature derivatives, are bounded using a combination of dyadic, multilinear, and algebraic estimates, yielding a contraction in the appropriate function space for small Besov data u0. Consequently, the authors obtain local existence, uniqueness, and Lipschitz continuity of the solution map for initial data in B^σ_Q with σ≥(n+1)/2, and show how the stereographic reduction back to the original map recovers a regular solution u : R^{n+1}→S^2. This work advances the understanding of subcritical regimes for geometric Schrödinger-type maps and paves the way for refined well-posedness results using compensation-type structures.
Abstract
We study well-posedness of the $s$-Schrödinger map equation in dimension $n \geq 3$ in the subcritical regime, more precisely we establish a local well-posedness result when the initial data is $u_{0} \in B^σ_{2,1}$ with $ σ\geq \frac{n+1}{2}$ and $ \Vert u_{0} \Vert_{B^σ_{2,1}} \ll 1.$
