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Changyou Wang

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arXiv2011

Energy identity of approximate biharmonic maps to Riemannian manifolds and its application

We consider in dimension four weakly convergent sequences of approximate biharmonic maps to a Riemannian manifold with bi-tension fields bounded in $L^p$ for $p>\frac43$. We prove an energy identity that accounts for the loss of hessian energies by the sum of hessian energies over finitely many nontrivial biharmonic maps on $\mathbb R^4$. As a corollary, we obtain an energy identity for the heat flow of biharmonic maps at time infinity.

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arXiv2011

Harmonic maps on domains with piecewise Lipschitz continuous metrics

For a bounded domain equipped with a piecewise Lipschitz continuous Riemannian metric g, we consider harmonic map from $(Ω, g)$ to a compact Riemannian manifold $(N,h)\subset\mathbb R^k$ without boundary. We generalize the notion of stationary harmonic map and prove the partial regularity. We also discuss the global Lipschitz and piecewise $C^{1,α}$-regularity of harmonic maps from $(Ω, g)$ manifolds that support convex distance functions.

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arXiv2011

Boundary regularity of stationary biharmonic maps

We consider the Dirichlet problem for stationary biharmonic maps $u$ from a bounded, smooth domain $Ω\subset\mathbb R^n$ ($n\ge 5$) to a compact, smooth Riemannian manifold $N\subset\mathbb R^l$ without boundary. For any smooth boundary data, we show that if, in addition, $u$ satisfies a certain boundary monotonicity inequality, then there exists a closed subset $Σ\subset\barΩ$, with $H^{n-4}(Σ)=0$, such that $u\in C^\infty(\barΩ\setminusΣ, N)$.

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arXiv2011

Blow up criterion for nematic liquid crystal flows

In this paper, we establish a blow up criterion for the short time classical solution of the nematic liquid crystal ow, a simplified version of Ericksen-Leslie system modeling the hydrodynamic evolution of nematic liquid crystals, in dimensions two and three. More precisely, $0<T_*<+\infty$ is the maximal time interval iff (i) for $n=3$, $|ω|+|\nabla d|^2\notin L^1_tL^\infty_x(\mathbb R^3\times [0,T_*])$, and (ii) for $n=2$, $|\nabla|^2\notin L^1_tL^\infty_x(\mathbb R^2\times [0,T_*])$.

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arXiv2011

Strong solutions of the compressible nematic liquid crystal flow

We study strong solutions of the simplified Ericksen-Leslie system modeling compressible nematic liquid crystal flows in a domain $Ω\subset\mathbb R^3$. We first prove the local existence of unique strong solutions provided that the initial data $ρ_0, u_0, d_0$are sufficiently regular and satisfy a natural compatibility condition. The initial density function $ρ_0$ may vanish on an open subset (i.e., an initial vacuum may exist). We then prove a criterion for possible breakdown of such a local strong solution at finite time in terms of blow up of the quantities $\|ρ\|_{L^\infty_tL^\infty_x}$ and $\|\nabla d\|_{L^3_tL^\infty_x}$.

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arXiv2011

Blow up criterion for compressible nematic liquid crystal flows in dimension three

In this paper, we consider the short time strong solution to a simplified hydrodynamic flow modeling the compressible, nematic liquid crystal materials in dimension three. We establish a criterion for possible breakdown of such solutions at finite time in terms of the temporal integral of both the maximum norm of the deformation tensor of velocity gradient and the square of maximum norm of gradient of liquid crystal director field.

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arXiv2008

A Remark on Nonlinear Dirac Equations

For a $n$-dimensional spin manifold $M$ with a fixed spin structure and a spinor bundle $ΣM$, we prove an $ε$-regularity theorem for weak solutions to the nonlinear Dirac equation of cubic nonlinearity. This, in particular, answers a regularity question raised by Chen-Jost-Wang when $n=2$.

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arXiv2008

Regularity of Dirac-harmonic maps

For any $n$-dimensional compact spin Riemannian manifold $M$ with a given spin structure and a spinor bundle $ΣM$, and any compact Riemannian manifold $N$, we show an $ε$-regularity theorem for weakly Dirac-harmonic maps . As a consequence, any weakly Dirac-harmonic map is proven to be smooth when n = 2. A weak convergence theorem for approximate Dirac-harmonic maps is established when $n = 2$. For $n \ge 3$, we introduce the notation of stationary Dirac-harmonic maps and obtain a Liouville theorem for stationary Dirac-harmonic maps in $R^n$. If, additions, $ψ\in W^{1,p}$ for some $p>2n/3$, then we obtain an energy monotonicity formula and prove a partial regularity theorem for any such a stationary Dirac-harmonic map.

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arXiv2004

Regularity and relaxed problems of minimizing biharmonic maps into spheres

For $n\ge 5$ and $k\ge 4$, we show that any minimizing biharmonic map from $Ω\subset R^n$ to $S^k$ is smooth off a closed set whose Hausdorff dimension is at most $n-5$. When $n=5$ and $k=4$, for a parameter $λ\in [0,1]$ we introduce a $λ$-relaxed energy $\H_λ$ for the Hessian energy for maps in $W^{2,2}(Ω,S^4)$ so that each minimizer $u_λ$ of $\H_λ$ is also a biharmonic map. We also estabilish the existence and partial regularity of a minimizer of $\H_λ$ for $λ\in [0,1)$.

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arXiv2004

A compactness theorem of $n$-harmonic maps

For $n\ge 3$, let $Ω$ be a bounded domain in $R^n$ and $N$ be a compact Riemannian manifold in $R^L$ without boundary. Suppose that $u_n\in W^{1,n}(Ω,N)$ are the Palais-Smale sequences of the Dirichlet $n$-energy functional and $u_n$ converges weakly in $W^{1,n}$ to a map $u\in W^{1,n}(Ω,N)$. Then $u$ is a $n$-harmonic map. In particular, the space of $n$-harmonic maps is sequentially compact for the weak $W^{1,n}$-topology.

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arXiv2003

The comparsion principle for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear subelliptic equations in Carnot groups

For any Carnot group $\bf G$ and a bounded domain $Ω\subset \bf G$, we prove that viscosity solutions in $C(\bar\Om)$ of the fully nonlinear subelliptic equation $F(u,\nabla_h u, \nabla^2_h u)=0$ are unique when $F\in C(R\times R^m\times {\Cal S}(m))$ satisfies (i) $F$ is degenerate subelliptic and decreasing in $u$ or (ii) $F$ is uniformly subelliptic and nonincreasing in $u$. This extends Jensen's uniqueness theorem from the Euclidean space to the sub-Riemannian setting of the Carnot group.

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arXiv2003

The Aronsson equation for absolute minimizers of $L^\infty$-functionals associated with vector fields satisfying Hörmander's condition

Given a Carnot-Carathéodory metric space $(R^n, d_{\hbox{cc}})$ generated by vector fields $\{X_i\}_{i=1}^m$ satisfying Hörmander's condition, we prove in theorem A that any absolute minimizer $u\in W^{1,\infty}_{\hbox{cc}}(\Om)$ to $F(v,\Om)=\sup_{x\in\Om}f(x,Xv(x))$ is a viscosity solution to the Aronsson equation (1.6), under suitable conditions on $f$. In particular, any AMLE is a viscosity solution to the subelliptic $\infty$-Laplacian equation (1.7). If the Carnot-Carathédory space is a Carnot group ${\bf G}$ and $f$ is independent of $x$-variable, we establish in theorem C the uniquness of viscosity solutions to the Aronsson equation (1.13) under suitable conditions on $f$. As a consequence, the uniqueness of both AMLE and viscosity solutions to the subelliptic $\infty$-Laplacian equation is established in ${\bf G}$

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