The interaction of classical Yang-Mills charges

Beginning with Khriplovich's formulation of the two point charge Yang-Mills problem, the gauge freedom is used to reduce by one the number of quantities entering the field equations. While a Coulomb solution is shown to exist for any orientation of the color charges, any solution which has a magnetic field present will have lower energy. When the field equations are solved for the simple charge configurations of parallel plates and cylindrical capacitors, one finds screening due to the vector potential. This screening is shown to be complete for any isolated charged plate or line charge. This result may be an indication that isolated charge cannot occur physically for the classical Yang-Mills theory. (orig.)