A topological join construction and the Toda system on compact surfaces of arbitrary genus

We consider a Toda system of Liouville equations defined on a compact surface which arises as a model for non-abelian Chern-Simons vortices. For the first time the range of parameters ${\rho }_1\in (4k\pi ,4(k+1)\pi )$, $k \in $\mathbb{N}$$,$\rho_2 \in (4\pi, 8\pi )$ is studied with a variational approach on surfaces with arbitrary genus. We provide a general existence result by means of a new improved Moser-Trudinger type inequality and introducing a topological join construction in order to describe the interaction of the two components.