Bifurcating and screening solutions of the topologically massive Yang-Mills gauge field theories with external matter sources

Abstract

Using a suitable ansatz for the gauge potentials and the external source currents, we demonstrate that solutions for the topologically massive gauge field theories can be constructed to exhibit branching in the total energy versus total external charge plot. As the gauge field is massive, charge screening of the external matter source also occurs. © 1992 The American Physical Society.