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A note and erratum concerning “min-max theory for the Yang-Mills—Higgs equations”

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An error in an argument which was used to prove the existence of non-minimal solutions to theSU(2) Yang-Mills-Higgs equations has been shown to the author. A revised proof is presented here to establish the existence of infinitely many non-minimal solutions to the afore-mentioned equations.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, 02138, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Clifford H. Taubes

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Communicated by A. Jaffe

Supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation

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Taubes, C.H. A note and erratum concerning “min-max theory for the Yang-Mills—Higgs equations”. Commun.Math. Phys. 122, 609–613 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01256496

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