Abstract
We settle a number of questions about the possible behaviour of the harmonic map heat flow at finite-time singularities. In particular, we show that a type of nonuniqueness of bubbles can occur at finite time, we show that the weak limit of the flow at the singular time can be discontinuous, we determine exactly the (polynomial) rate of blow-up in one particular example, and we show that ‘winding’ behaviour of the flow can lead to an unexpected failure of convergence when the flow is (locally) lifted to the universal cover of the target manifold.
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