The paper studies how adding a 'Gauge Mass' term breaks gauge symmetry in Yang-Mills-Higgs systems and analyzes the resulting behavior.
problem Breaking gauge symmetry in Yang-Mills-Higgs systems.
method Analyzing the asymptotic behavior of the system with a 'Gauge Mass' term added.
result The system's behavior is characterized by concentration phenomena and convergence to harmonic maps and minimal energies.
The paper studies minimal submanifolds from the abelian Higgs model, proving convergence of energy measures and currents.
problem Existence and properties of minimal submanifolds from the abelian Higgs model.
method Analyzes rescalings of the self-dual Yang-Mills-Higgs energy, showing convergence of energy measures and currents.
result Provides a variational construction of nontrivial critical points and proves the existence of stationary integral (n-2)-varifolds.
The paper shows how Yang-Mills-Higgs energies converge to the (n−2)-area functional.
problem Understanding the convergence of Yang-Mills-Higgs energies to the (n−2)-area functional. method Analyzing the convergence of critical points of Yang-Mills-Higgs energies to minimal submanifolds and proving Γ-convergence. result Yang-Mills-Higgs energies converge to the (n−2)-area functional as εo0. The paper proves unique blow-down for critical points of a Yang-Mills-Higgs functional.
problem Proving uniqueness of blow-down for critical points of a Yang-Mills-Higgs functional.
method Using an Allard-type improvement of flatness to establish co-dimension-two analogue of Savin's theorem.
result Entire critical points have unique blow-down, two-dimensional in ambient dimensions 2-4 or any dimension assuming local minimizer.
Study on vortex sheet formation in Abelian gauge theories.
problem Understanding vortex sheet formation in Abelian gauge theories.
method Inspired by Allard's regularity theory, constructs approximate solutions and analyzes their perturbations.
result Establishes a geometric framework and regularity theory for the limiting defect set.
The paper examines Yang-Mills-Higgs pairs on vector bundles and proves stability and energy identity.
problem Stability and energy identity of Yang-Mills-Higgs pairs on vector bundles.
method Bubble-neck decomposition and analysis of weakly stable pairs.
result A sequence of Yang-Mills-Higgs pairs converges to a Yang-Mills-Higgs pair with uniformly bounded energy.
Study bounds the index of minimal submanifolds using energy measures and Yang-Mills-Higgs equations.
problem Bounding the index of codimension 2 minimal submanifolds.
method Second inner variation of energy, convergence of energy measures, and stress-energy tensors.
result Bound the Morse index of the submanifold by the index of critical points.
Removes singularities for Yang-Mills-Higgs fields in higher dimensions.
problem Yang-Mills-Higgs fields with isolated singularities.
method Establishes decay estimates and conformally invariant energy bounds.
result Removable singularity theorem for Yang-Mills-Higgs fields.
Integrability of the (2+1)-dimensional Gauss-Codazzi-Mainardi equation is considered. It is shown that this equation is the particular cases of the Yang-Mills-Higgs-Bogomolny and self-dual Yang-Mills equations.
The paper defines and analyzes higher-order Yang-Mills-Higgs functionals and their gradient flows.
problem Analyzing the behavior of higher-order Yang-Mills-Higgs functionals and their gradient flows.
method Gauge fixing technique, L2-bound of the Higgs field, local L2-derivative estimates, energy estimates, blow-up analysis. result Solutions to the gradient flow do not hit finite time singularities under certain conditions.
The paper studies decay near singularities of 3d Yang-Mills-Higgs fields.
problem Understanding isolated singularities of 3d Yang-Mills-Higgs fields.
method Derives decay estimates and applies removable singularity theorems.
result Generalizes removable singularity theorems for 3d Yang-Mills-Higgs fields.
Study investigates singularity formation in α-Yang-Mills-Higgs fields on spheres.
problem Singularity formation in α-Yang-Mills-Higgs fields on spheres. method Established α-energy identity, no-neck property through Hodge decomposition and new conservation law. result Unified and quantitative framework for singularity formation in variational gauge theories.
The study finds critical points of Yang-Mills-Higgs energy on 3-manifolds.
problem Finding critical points of Yang-Mills-Higgs energy on 3-manifolds.
method 2-parameter min-max construction and energy gap analysis.
result Existence of non-trivial critical points on 3-manifolds with bounded geometry.
We prove an energy identity for anti-self-dual connections on the product C\timesΣof the complex plane and a Riemann surface. The energy is a multiple of a basic constant that is determined from the values of a corresponding Chern-Simons functional on flat connections and its ambiguity under gauge transformations. For …
Reformulates binary classification on manifolds using Yang-Mills-Higgs theory.
problem Binary classification on non-contractible spaces.
method Formulates binary classification as a Yang-Mills-Higgs variational problem, encoding data as a functor.
result Reveals a geometric interpretation of binary classification and solves XOR on the torus.
In this paper we consider SU(2) monopoles on an asymptotically conical, oriented, Riemannian 3-manifold with one end. The connected components of the moduli space of monopoles in this setting are labeled by an integer called the charge. We analyse the limiting behavior of sequences of monopoles with fixed charg…
We investigate monotonicity properties of p-harmonic vector bundle-valued k-forms by studying the energy-momentum tensor associated with such a form. As a consequence, we obtain a unified proof of the monotonicity formulæ for p-harmonic maps and Yang-Mills connections, proving a monotonicity formula for p-Yang-…
Study on finite energy SU(2) monopoles on AC 3-manifolds, proving integrality of charge and curvature decay.
problem Understanding the asymptotic behavior of finite energy SU(2) monopoles on AC 3-manifolds.
method Analysis of critical points of the SU(2) Yang--Mills--Higgs energy on asymptotically conical 3-manifolds.
result Proves integrality of the monopole number and quadratic decay of curvature, among other findings.
The paper studies a geometric model combining Kaluza-Klein, Yang-Mills, and Dirac actions.
problem Analyzing the geometric and analytic aspects of a complex model.
method Investigates geometric and analytic properties of a model combining Kaluza-Klein, Yang-Mills, and Dirac actions.
result For a sequence of approximate solutions on surfaces with uniformly bounded energies, energy identities and the no-neck property hold.
Weyl energy decreases for connected sums of certain four-manifolds.
problem Finding metrics with minimized Weyl energy on connected sums of four-manifolds.
method Proving existence of a metric on the connected sum with strictly smaller Weyl energy than the sum of energies of the original manifolds.
result Weyl energy of the connected sum is strictly smaller than the sum of energies of the original manifolds.
Study examines Yang-Mills-Higgs energy convergence to codimension-three area functional.
problem Asymptotic behavior of Yang-Mills-Higgs energy in large mass limit.
method Investigates the asymptotic behavior of Yang-Mills-Higgs energy in the large mass limit, proving convergence to the codimension-three area functional.
result The (n−3)-currents dual to the Yang-Mills-Higgs energy converge to a relative integral (n−3)-cycle. We generalize our previous results (Theorem 1 and Corollary 2 in arXiv:1412.4114) and Theorem 1 in arXiv:1502.00668) on the existence of an L2-energy gap for Yang-Mills connections over closed four-dimensional manifolds and energies near the ground state (occupied by flat, anti-self-dual, or self-dual connections) t…
We develop a new method for proving regularity for small energy stationary solutions of coupled gauge field equations. Our results duplicate those of Tian--Tao [7] for the pure Yang Mills equations, but our proof is simpler, and obtains bounded curvature without the use of Coulomb gauges. It relies instead on the Weitz…
Minimal submanifolds are found as energy concentration sets in variational problems.
problem Understanding the structure of minimal submanifolds in codimension two.
method Purely variational approach, extending previous work on geodesics.
result Non-degenerate minimal submanifolds can be derived from critical maps of the Ginzburg-Landau functional.
In this paper, we study the convergence of Yang-Mills-Higgs fields defined on fiber bundles over Riemann surfaces where the fiber is a compact symplectic manifold and the conformal structure of the Riemann surface is allowed to vary. We show that away from the nodes, the YMH fields converges, up to gauge, to a smooth Y…
In this paper, we introduce some notions on the pair consisting of a Chern connection and a Higgs field closely related to the first and second variation of Yang-Mills- Higgs functional, such as strong Yang-Mills-Higgs pair, degenerate Yang-Mills-Higgs pair, stable Yang-Mills-Higgs pair. We investigate some properties …
We investigate Yang--Mills instanton theory over four dimensional asymptotically locally flat (ALF) geometries, including gravitational instantons of this type, by exploiting the existence of a natural smooth compactification of these spaces introduced by Hausel--Hunsicker--Mazzeo. First referring to the codimension 2 …
Growth of spinors in 4D and 3D generalized Seiberg-Witten equations.
problem Proving growth of spinors in GSW equations on R4 and R3. method Unified framework of GSW equations, averaged L2-norm, curvature decay assumption, Yang-Mills-Higgs energy. result Growth of spinors in GSW equations on R4 and R3 faster than a power of the radius under suitable curvature decay. Several results on existence and convergence of the Yang-Mills flow in dimension four are given. We show that a singularity modeled on an instanton cannot form within finite time. Given low initial self-dual energy, we then study convergence of the flow at infinite time. If an Uhlenbeck limit is anti-self-dual and has …
Stable solutions to Yang-Mills-Higgs equations on spheres and tori identified.
problem Stable solutions to abelian Yang-Mills-Higgs equations on S2 and T2. method Reduction to vortex equations and application of Bourguignon-Lawson's method for stable SU(2) Yang-Mills connections. result Stable solutions to abelian Yang-Mills-Higgs equations on S2 and T2 are identified as satisfying vortex equations. Compact theorem for SO(3) anti-self-dual equations on cylindrical manifolds.
problem Proving compactness of instantons with translation symmetry.
method Gromov-Uhlenbeck type compactness theorem for SO(3) anti-self-dual instantons. result Sequence of instantons converges to singular objects with instanton and holomorphic curve components.
New metric reduces Weyl's energy in manifold connected sums.
problem Minimizing Weyl's energy in connected sums of manifolds.
method Interplay of Bach-flat and locally conformally flat metrics, topology of Z. result Existence of a metric with lower Weyl energy than gM. Sharp decay estimate for Yang-Mills-Higgs fields near singular points.
problem Non-removable singularities in Yang-Mills-Higgs fields.
method Sharp asymptotic decay estimate near singular points.
result Decay rate determined by limit holonomy.
A local monotonicity formula for the Yang-Mills-Higgs flow on G-bundles over Rn (n>4) is proved. It is shown that the monotone quantity coïncides on certain self-similar solutions with that appearing in existing non-local monotonicity formulæ for the Yang-Mills and Yang-Mills-Higgs flows.
Paper studies convergence of Yang-Mills-Higgs flow on Kähler manifolds.
problem Analyzing convergence of Yang-Mills-Higgs flow for twisted Higgs pairs.
method Proves convergence to a reflexive twisted Higgs sheaf outside a closed subset.
result Limiting twisted Higgs sheaf is isomorphic to the double dual of graded twisted Higgs sheaves.
Extends decay estimates for Yang-Mills-Higgs fields on Minkowski and de Sitter spacetimes.
problem Decay rates of Yang-Mills-Higgs fields on Minkowski and de Sitter spacetimes.
method First worked on Minkowski space, localized estimates, then used conformal transformations to extend to Einstein cylinder and de Sitter space.
result Extended exponential decay rates for Yang-Mills-Higgs fields on de Sitter space and inverse polynomial decay rates on Minkowski space.
In this note we address the problem of finding Abelian instantons of finite energy on the Euclidean Schwarzschild manifold. This amounts to construct self-dual L^2 harmonic 2-forms on the space. Gibbons found a non-topological L^2 harmonic form in the Taub-NUT metric, leading to Abelian instantons with continuous energ…
Let X be a compact connected Kähler--Einstein manifold with c1(TX)≥0. If there is a semistable Higgs vector bundle (E,θ) on X with θ=0, then we show that c1(TX)=0, any X satisfying this condition is called a Calabi--Yau manifold, and it admits a Ricci--flat Kähler form \cite{Ya}. Let …
In this paper, we consider the gradient flow of the Yang-Mills-Higgs functional for Higgs pairs on a Hermitian vector bundle (E,H0) over a compact Kähler manifold (M,ω). We study the asymptotic behavior of the Yang-Mills-Higgs flow for Higgs pairs at infinity, and show that the limiting Higgs sheaf is isomorph…
Researchers can retrieve Yang-Mills-Higgs fields from Minkowski space measurements.
problem Retrieving Yang-Mills-Higgs fields from active local measurements in Minkowski space.
method Exploiting non-linear wave interactions and Lie algebra structure.
result Yang-Mills-Higgs fields can be retrieved from source-to-solution data.
Let (E, \varphi) be a flat Higgs bundle on a compact special affine manifold M equipped with an affine Gauduchon metric. We prove that (E, \varphi) is polystable if and only if it admits an affine Yang-Mills-Higgs metric.
Stable solutions found for a specific physics model.
problem Stability of solutions to the U(1)-Yang-Mills-Higgs model. method Gluing method and detailed analysis of linearized operators.
result Found a family of stable critical points in higher dimensions.
New flow for Yang-Mills-Higgs theory avoids singularities.
problem Avoiding singularities in Yang-Mills-Higgs flow on 4-manifolds.
method Introduced a new higher-order Yang-Mills-Higgs functional and used a gradient flow approach.
result Gradient flow solutions do not hit finite time singularities under suitable conditions.
Proposes a new gauge theory for fuzzy geometries using finite-dimensional algebras.
problem Modeling fuzzy geometries in noncommutative geometry.
method Introduces a Yang-Mills-Higgs matrix model based on gauge matrix spectral triples.
result States Yang-Mills-Higgs theory as an explicit random multimatrix model.
For any compact Lie group G and closed, smooth Riemannian manifold (X,g) of dimension d≥2, we extend a result due to Uhlenbeck (1985) that gives existence of a flat connection on a principal G-bundle over X supporting a connection with Lp-small curvature, when p>d/2, to the case of a connection with …
Study vortices in Kähler-Yang-Mills equations on complex manifolds.
problem Solving coupled equations for Kähler metrics and connections.
method Dimensional reductions of Kähler-Yang-Mills equations to study vortices.
result Found solutions to Yang-Mills-Higgs equations related to vortices.
A self-dual harmonic 2-form on a 4-dimensional Riemannian manifold is symplectic where it does not vanish. Furthermore, away from the form's zero set, the metric with the 2-form give a compatible almost complex structure and thus pseudo-holomorphic subvarieties. Such a subvariety is said to have finite energy when the …
The study proves constraints on the structure of compact half-conformally flat manifolds.
problem Analyzing the structure of compact half-conformally flat manifolds.
method Analyzes manifolds with bounded L2 energy, scalar curvature, and non-collapsing assumption. result Proves all Betti numbers are bounded for certain manifolds.