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Hermitian Yang–Mills–Higgs Metrics on Complete Kähler Manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Xi Zhang*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, Zhejiang, P. R. China, e-mail: xizhang@zju.edu.cn
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In this paper, first, we will investigate the Dirichlet problem for one type of vortex equation, which generalizes the well-known Hermitian Einstein equation. Secondly, we will give existence results for solutions of these vortex equations over various complete noncompact Kähler manifolds.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2005

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