Uniqueness  of harmonic map heat flows and  liquid crystal flows

Junyu Lin

doi:10.3934/dcds.2013.33.739

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2013, Volume 33, Issue 2: 739-755. Doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.739

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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: June 30, 2011

Revised: December 31, 2011

Published: January 2013

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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 $0< T ≤ +\infty.$

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Mathematics Subject Classification: 35Q35, 35K55, 76D03,76N10.

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