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A general existence result for the Toda system on compact surfaces

Analysis of PDEs 2015-09-04 v4

Abstract

In this paper we consider the Toda system of equations on a compact surface, which is motivated by the study of models in non-abelian Chern-Simons theory. We prove a general existence result using variational methods. The same analysis applies to a mean field equation which arises in fluid dynamics.

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@article{arxiv.1306.5404,
  title  = {A general existence result for the Toda system on compact surfaces},
  author = {Luca Battaglia and Aleks Jevnikar and Andrea Malchiodi and David Ruiz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.5404},
  year   = {2015}
}

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28 pages, 1 figure, accepted on Advances in Mathematics

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