Multiplicity results for the two-vortex Chern-Simons Higgs model on the two-sphere

Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 118-142

  Ding, Weiyue ^a   Jost, Jürgen ^b   Li, Jiayu ^a   Wang, Guofang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chern Simons Higgs theory; Ginzburg Landau functional; Moser Trudinger inequality; Nirenberg problem; Phase transition; 6 theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001378560     PISSN: 00102571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000140050079     Document Type: Article

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