Local well-posedness of the coupled Yang-Mills and Dirac system for low regularity data

Abstract

We consider the classical Yang-Mills system coupled with a Dirac equation in 3+1 dimensions. Using that most of the nonlinear terms fulfill a null condition we prove local well-posedness for data with minimal regularity assumptions. This problem for smooth data was solved forty years ago by Y. Choquet-Bruhat and D. Christodoulou. Our result generalizes a similar result for the Yang-Mills equation by S. Selberg and A. Tesfahun.