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Classification and nondegeneracy of Toda system with singular sources

arXiv:1111.0390 · doi:10.1007/s00222-012-0378-3

Abstract

We consider the following Toda system Δu_i + \D \sum_{j = 1}^n a_{ij}e^{u_j} = 4πγ_{i}δ_{0} \text{in}\mathbb R^2, \int_{\mathbb R^2}e^{u_i} dx < \infty, \forall 1\leq i \leq n, where , is Dirac measure at 0, and the coefficients form the standard tri-diagonal Cartan matrix. In this paper, (i) we completely classify the solutions and obtain the quantization result: This generalizes the classification result by Jost and Wang for , . (ii) We prove that if for all , then any solution is \textit{radially symmetric} w.r.t. 0. (iii) We prove that the linearized equation at any solution is \textit{non-degenerate}. These are fundamental results in order to understand the bubbling behavior of the Toda system.

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