On global properties of static spherically symmetric EYM fields with compact gauge groups

Abstract

The set of all possible spherically symmetric magnetic static Einstein–Yang–Mills field equations for an arbitrary compact semisimple gauge group G was classified in two previous papers. Local analytic solutions near the centre and a black-hole horizon as well as those that are analytic and bounded near infinity were shown to exist. Some globally bounded solutions are also known to exist because they can be obtained by embedding solutions for the G = SU(2) case which is well understood. However, more general global solutions for more complicated (so-called irregular) actions for larger gauge groups are very difficult to find numerically since they are very unstable. Here we derive rigorously some asymptotic properties of an arbitrary global solution, namely one that exists locally near a radial value r0 (in Schwarzschild-type coordinates), has positive mass m(r) at r0 and is defined for all r > r0. The set of asymptotic values of the Yang–Mills potential (in a suitable well-defined gauge) is shown to be finite in the so-called regular case, but may form a more complicated real variety for models obtained from irregular rotation group actions.