A Study on the Well-Posedness of 1D Energy-Critical Half-Wave Maps Equations

Abstract

In this article, we study the well-posedness of the energy-critical half-wave maps equation (HWM) in dimension $1$. The half-wave maps equation emerges from the continuum limit of the Haldane Shastry spin chains and has been shown to arise as the continuum limit of Calogero-Moser classical spin systems. In higher dimension $d\geq 5$, it has been shown that (HWM) is well-posed by Krieger and Sire. This result has been improved by Krieger and Kiesenhofer to $d = 4$ but the Strichartz estimate on which the argument is built no longer holds for smaller dimensions. A Lax-pair structure has been revealed for this equation by Lenzmann and G\'erard, indicating complete integrability and the fact that rational solutions stay rational for all time. The well-posedness of the (HWM) equation in lower dimensions remains an open problem. Here, we show the well-posedness of (HWM) in the rational case for finite times with separated poles, and for large and infinite times with distinct speeds of propagation.