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The classical Yang-Mills equations in four-dimensional Minkowski space are invariant under the conformal group. The resulting conservation laws are explicitly exhibited in terms of the Cauchy data at a fixed time. In particular, it is shown that, for any finite-energy solution of the Yang-Mills equations, the local energy tends to zero ast→∞.
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Communicated by A. Jaffe
Research supported in part by NSF grants MCS 77-01340 and MCS 78-03567
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Glassey, R.T., Strauss, W.A. Decay of classical Yang-Mills fields. Commun.Math. Phys. 65, 1–13 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01940957
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01940957