A LIOUVILLE THEOREM OF AN INTEGRAL EQUATION OF THE CHERN-SIMONS-HIGGS TYPE

In this paper, we are concerned with a Liouville-type result of the nonlinear integral equation of Chern-Simons-Higgs type $$u(x)=\vec{\;l\;}+C_{\ast}{{\displaystyle\smashmargin{2}{\int\nolimits_{\mathbb{R}^n}}}\;{\frac{(1-{\mid}u(y){\mid}^2){\mid}u(y){\mid}^2u(y)-\frac{1}{2}(1-{\mid}u(y){\mid}^2)^2u(y)}{{\mid}x-y{\mid}^{n-{\alpha}}}}dy.$$ Here u : ℝⁿ → ℝ^k is a bounded, uniformly continuous function with k ⩾ 1 and 0 < α < n, $\vec{\;l\;}{\in}\mathbb{R}^k$ is a constant vector, and C_* is a real constant. We prove that ${\mid}\vec{\;l\;}{\mid}{\in}\{0,\frac{\sqrt{3}}{3},1\}$ if u is the finite energy solution. Further, if u is also a differentiable solution, then we give a Liouville type theorem, that is either $u{\rightarrow}\vec{\;l\;}$ with ${\mid}\vec{\;l\;}{\mid}=\frac{\sqrt{3}}{3}$, when |x| → ∞, or $u{\equiv}\vec{\;l\;}$, where ${\mid}\vec{\;l\;}{\mid}{\in}\{0,1\}$.