Type: Article
Publication Date: 2000-06-01
Citations: 23
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ajm.2000.0023
We show that the wave map equation in R 1+1 is in general ill posed in the critical space Ḣ 1/2 , and the Besov space Ḃ 1/2,1 2 . The problem is attributed to the bad behavior of the one-dimensional bilinear expression D -1 ( fDg ) in these spaces.