boundary value problem for (i) existence and uniqueness边值问题(我)的存在性和唯一性.pdfVIP

IJMMS 26:10 (2001) 605–613 PII. S0161171201003544 © Hindawi Publishing Corp. BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM FOR r 2 d2f /dr 2 +f = f 3 (I): EXISTENCE AND UNIQUENESS CHIE BING WANG (Received 16 June 1999) Abstract. We study the equation r 2 2 2 3 d f /dr + f = f with the boundary conditions f ( 1) = 0, f ( ∞) = 1, and f (r ) 0 for 1 r ∞. The existence of the solution is proved us- ing a topological shooting argument. And the uniqueness is proved by a variation method. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. 34B15, 34D05, 34E10, 81T13. 1. Introduction. Consider the following boundary value problem r 2f +f = f 3 , 0 r ∞, (1.1) f (r ) → 0, as r → 0, (1.2) f ( ∞) = 1, (1.3) where means d/dr . This problem was proposed in [11] for studying the monopole solution in the pure SU(2) gauge field theory. The solution to this problem is usually called Wu-Yang solution. And when people study the Yang-Mills coupled equations, for example, in [2, 4, 8], this equation is always considered. The regular solution to this equation only comes out from this boundary value problem or equivalently f ( ∞) = −1 (see [2]). So it is useful to give a complete study for the existence, uniqueness, asymp- totics and connection formulas for the parameters in the asymptotic formulas. The readers who are interested in the physics background are referred to [ 1, 5]. Wu and Yang [ 11], Protogenov [7], and Breitenlohner et al. [2] obtained that the solution to this boundary value problem has the asymptotics