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PII.S0161171201003544 BOUNDARYVALUEPROBLEMFORr2d2f/dr2+f =f3 (I): EXISTENCEANDUNIQUENESS CHIEBINGWANG (Received 16June 1999) Abstract. We study the equation r2d2f/dr2+f = f3 with the boundary conditions f(1)=0,f(∞)=1,andf(r)0for1r ∞.Theexistence ofthesolution isproved us- ingatopological shooting argument. Andtheuniqueness isproved byavariation method. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classi?cation. 34B15, 34D05, 34E10, 81T13. 1. Introduction. Consider thefollowing boundary valueproblem r2f+f =f3, 0r ∞, f(r)
→0, asr
→0, f(∞)=1, (1.1) (1.2) (1.3) where  means d/dr.This problem was proposed in[11] forstudying themonopole solution inthepureSU(2)gauge ?eldtheory. Thesolution tothisproblem isusually called Wu-Yang solution. And when people study the Yang-Mills coupled equations, forexample,in[2,4,8],thisequationisalwaysconsidered.Theregularsolutiontothis equationonlycomesoutfromthisboundaryvalueproblemorequivalentlyf(∞)=?1 (see[2]).Soitisusefultogiveacompletestudyfortheexistence,uniqueness,asymp- totics and connection formulas for the parameters in the asymptotic formulas. The readerswhoareinterested inthephysicsbackground arereferredto[1,5]. Wu and Yang [11], Protogenov [7], and Breitenlohner et al. [2] obtained that the solutiontothisboundary valueproblemhastheasymptotics f(r)～αr1/2sin
√ 23logr+β, (1.4) asr →0,and f(r)～1+γr , (1.5) as r → ∞ for some parameters α,β,γ. The current work is motivated to ?nd the formulas for the parameters α,β, and γ, which are called connection formulas for thisproblem. Inthispaperandin[9,10],westudythisboundary valueproblem and?nallygive the connection formulas. We will show that any solution to this problem has in?n- itely many zeros, and thezeros have upper bound. Sothelargest zero r =r0 exists. Sincetheequationisinvariantunderthescalingtransformation r →cr,wejustneed  606 CHIE BING WANG to discuss r0 =1. To study the boundary value problem, we ?rst consider the exis- tence and uniqueness