A compactness result for periodic multivortices in the electroweak theory

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 277-297

  Bartolucci, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Concentration compactness principle; Electroweak vortices; Liouville type equations; Mean field equations

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY; THEOREM PROVING; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

ELECTROWEAK THEORY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY;

EID: 0037393125     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0362-546X(02)00310-3     Document Type: Article

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