A system of elliptic equations arising in Chern-Simons field theory

Journal of Functional Analysis

Volumn 247, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 289-350

  Lin, Chang Shou ^a   Ponce, Augusto C ^b   Yang, Yisong ^c,d  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^c POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Elliptic equations; Gauge fields; Self dual vortices; Topological solutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247887582     PISSN: 00221236     EISSN: 10960783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfa.2007.03.010     Document Type: Article

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