Ginzburg-Landau vortices: Weak stability and Schrödinger equation dynamics (Q1293562)

The paper deals with the asymptotic behaviour of the initial value problem for the Ginzburg-Landau-Schrödinger equation. Assuming that the initial data has a finite number of discrete vortices, one shows that these vortex structures are preserved by the evolution and that under further assumptions on the initial data their motion can be described. The main results of the paper concern not only vortex dynamics but also some variational results on the renormalized energy and a detailed characterization of vortex structure. An important consequence of the latter is the topological stability of vortices in weak function spaces.