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It is a well accepted principle that finite-energy static solutions in the classical relativistic gauge field theory over the (2 + 1)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime must be electrically neutral. We call such a statement the Julia–Zee theorem. In this paper, we present a mathematical proof of this fundamental structural property.
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Spruck, J., Yang, Y. Proof of the Julia–Zee Theorem. Commun. Math. Phys. 291, 347–356 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-009-0791-7
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