{"paper":{"title":"A Lax Pair Structure for the Half-Wave Maps Equation","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["math-ph","math.MP"],"primary_cat":"math.AP","authors_text":"Enno Lenzmann, Patrick G\\'erard","submitted_at":"2017-07-17T07:50:13Z","abstract_excerpt":"We consider the half-wave maps equation $$ \\partial_t \\vec{S} = \\vec{S} \\wedge |\\nabla| \\vec{S}, $$ where $\\vec{S}= \\vec{S}(t,x)$ takes values on the two-dimensional unit sphere $\\mathbb{S}^2$ and $x \\in \\mathbb{R}$ (real line case) or $x \\in \\mathbb{T}$ (periodic case). This an energy-critical Hamiltonian evolution equation recently introduced in \\cite{LS,Zh}, which formally arises as an effective evolution equation in the classical and continuum limit of Haldane-Shastry quantum spin chains. We prove that the half-wave maps equation admits a Lax pair and we discuss some analytic consequences "},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1707.05028","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}