01381nas a2200205 4500008004100000022001400041245007100055210006900126300001400195490000800209520074400217653001900961653002200980653002401002100002001026700002001046700002201066700001601088856007101104 2015 eng d a0001-870800aA general existence result for the Toda system on compact surfaces0 ageneral existence result for the Toda system on compact surfaces a937 - 9790 v2853 a
In this paper we consider the following Toda system of equations on a compact surface:−Δu1=2ρ1(h1eu1∫Σh1eu1dVg−1)−ρ2(h2eu2∫Σh2eu2dVg−1)−Δu1=−4π∑j=1mα1,j(δpj−1),−Δu2=2ρ2(h2eu2∫Σh2eu2dVg−1)−ρ1(h1eu1∫Σh1eu1dVg−1)−Δu2=−4π∑j=1mα2,j(δpj−1), which is motivated by the study of models in non-abelian Chern–Simons theory. Here h1,h2 are smooth positive functions, ρ1,ρ2 two positive parameters, pi points of the surface and α1,i,α2,j non-negative numbers. We prove a general existence result using variational methods. The same analysis applies to the following mean field equation−Δu=ρ1(heu∫ΣheudVg−1)−ρ2(he−u∫Σhe−udVg−1), which arises in fluid dynamics."
10aGeometric PDEs10aMin–max schemes10aVariational methods1 aBattaglia, Luca1 aJevnikar, Aleks1 aMalchiodi, Andrea1 aRuiz, David uhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001870815003072