In this paper and its sequel we shall prove the local and then the global existence of solutions of the classical Yang-Mills-Higgs equations in the temporal gauge. This paper proves local existence uniqueness and smoothness properties and improves, by essentially one order of differentiability, previous local existence results. Our results apply to any compact gauge group and to any invariant Higgs self-coupling which is positive and of no higher than quartic degree.
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Harvard College Observatory, Havard University, 02138, Cambridge, MA, USA
Douglas M. Eardley
Department of Physics, Yale University, 06520, New Haven, CT, USA
Vincent Moncrief
Communicated by A. Jaffe
Supported in part by the National Science Foundation (Grant No. PHY79-16482 at Yale)
About this article Cite this articleEardley, D.M., Moncrief, V. The global existence of Yang-Mills-Higgs fields in 4-dimensional Minkowski space. Commun.Math. Phys. 83, 171–191 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01976040
Received: 20 April 1981
Revised: 19 June 1981
Issue Date: February 1982
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01976040
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