Isolated Singularities of Yang–Mills–Higgs Fields on Surfaces

Abstract

Abstract We study isolated singularities of 2D Yang–Mills–Higgs (YMH) fields defined on a fiber bundle, where the fiber space is a compact Riemannian manifold and the structure group is a compact connected Lie group. In general, the singularity cannot be removed due to possibly non-vanishing limit holonomy around the singular points. We establish a sharp asymptotic decay estimate of the YMH field near a singular point, where the decay rate is precisely determined by the limit holonomy. Our result can be viewed as a generalization of the classical removable singularity theorem of 2D harmonic maps.