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# Classification of non-topological solutions of an elliptic equation arising from self-dual gauged Sigma model

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This work is supported by NNSF of China, No: 12071189 and 12001252, by the Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation, 20202BAB201005 and No: 20202ACBL201001, by the Science and Technology Research Project of Jiangxi Provincial Department of Education, No: 200307 and 200325
• Our purpose in this paper is to classify the non-topological solutions of equations

$-\Delta u +\frac{4e^u}{1+e^u} = 4\pi\sum\limits_{i = 1}^k n_i\delta_{p_i}-4\pi\sum^l\limits_{j = 1}m_j\delta_{q_j} \quad{\rm in}\;\; \mathbb{R}^2,\;\;\;\;\;\;(E)$

where $\{\delta_{p_i}\}_{i = 1}^k$ (resp. $\{\delta_{q_j}\}_{j = 1}^l$) are Dirac masses concentrated at the points $\{p_i\}_{i = 1}^k$, (resp. $\{q_j\}_{j = 1}^l$), $n_i$ and $m_j$ are positive integers. Denote $N = \sum^k_{i = 1}n_i$ and $M = \sum^l_{j = 1}m_j$ satisfying that $N-M > 1$.

Problem $(E)$ arises from gauged sigma models and we first construct an extremal non-topological solution $u$ of $(E)$ with asymptotic behavior

$u(x) = -2\ln |x|-2\ln\ln|x|+O(1)\quad{\rm as}\quad |x|\to+\infty$

and with total magnetic flux $4\pi (N-M-1)$. And then we do the classification for non-topological solutions of $(E)$ with finite magnetic flux. This solves a challenging long standing problem. We believe that our approach is novel and applies to other types of equations.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35R06, 35A01; Secondary: 81T13.

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