On long time dynamics of 1D Schr\"odinger map flows

Abstract

In this paper, we study the long time dynamics of small solutions to Schr\"odinger map flows from $\Bbb R$ to Riemannian surfaces. The results are threefold. (i) We prove that for general Riemannian surface targets the points with some geometric condition can be completely divided into two categories according to the sectional curvature so that the long time dynamics of small solutions of 1D Schr\"odinger map flow near them are described by modified scattering and scattering respectively for the two categories. (ii) If the geometric condition fails, we prove that solutions with slow time growth in frequency space and sharp time decay in physical space, which scatter or scatter by a phrase correction, must be trivial. (iii) We also prove the asymptotic completeness in $L^2$ spaces for 1D SMF into general Riemannian surface near points without any geometric assumptions. Compared with our previous works [26,27] on higher dimensional Schr\"odinger map flows where resolution to finite numbers of radiation terms in energy space was proved for small solutions, the results of this work reveal the essentially different and diverse dynamical behaviors of 1D Schr\"odinger map flows.