Long Time Existence of A Flow of Elliptic Systems

Abstract

For elliptic systems defined on Riemann surfaces, Liouville and Toda systems represent two well-known classes exhibiting drastically different solution structures. Over the years, existence results for these systems have highlighted discrepancies due to their unique solution structures. In this work, we aim to construct a monotone entropy form and establish the long-term existence of a flow of parabolic systems. As a result of our main theorem, we can prove existence results for some broad classes of elliptic systems, including both Liouville and Toda systems. The strength of our results is further underscored by the fact that no topological information about the Riemann surfaces is required and no positive lower bound of coefficient functions is postulated.