“…Local and global wellposedness results under various regularity, size and/or decay conditions on the data can be found in the literature (e.g. [27,22,12,13,11,16,4,15,2] and references therein). In particular, Hayashi and Saut studied the Cauchy problem of this type of systems for maps into S 2 and obtained well-posedness results for small smooth solutions with/without exponential decay assumption on initial data in [12,13], which applies to system (1.1) in the case of target manifold S 2 .…”