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# Global well-posedness of the Chern-Simons-Higgs equations with finite energy

• We prove that the Cauchy problem for the Chern-Simons-Higgs equations on the (2+1)-dimensional Minkowski space-time is globally well posed for initial data with finite energy. This improves a result of Chae and Choe, who proved global well-posedness for more regular data. Moreover, we prove local well-posedness even below the energy regularity, using the the null structure of the system in Lorenz gauge and bilinear space-time estimates for wave-Sobolev norms.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35L70, 35Q40.

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