Global existence of time-dependent Yang-Mills-Higgs monopoles (Q1077054)

The authors study the Cauchy problem for a nonabelian Yang-Mills-Higgs theory in \((3+1)\)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. With suitable conditions on the background fields and a suitable choice of a Sobolev space for the subtracted gauge potentials and the Higgs field they prove a local existence theorem. A global existence result is given after it is shown that the solutions cannot blow up in finite time.