Well-posedness of an inverse problem of a time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau model for super\-con\-ductivity (Q2493365)

The paper investigates the non-linear inverse problem, which consists of finding a set of the functions, namely: the order parameter, magnetic and electric potentials and scalar coefficient, defining the applied magnetic field, which satisfying Ginzburg-Landau equations for superconductivity with boundary and initial conditions, and also the condition of integral overdetermination. Because, the Ginzburg-Landau equations are gauge invariant, then in order to obtain the well-posedness of the problem the three types of the gauge condition are considered (i. e., Coulomb, Lorentz, and Temporal gauges). First, it is stated an existence and uniqueness result to the direct Ginzburg-Landau problem (first theorem). Based on the first theorem, the nonlinear operator is found, which states the operator equation of the second kind. An interrelation between this nonlinear operator equation and the initial inverse problem from the viewpoint of their solvability is stated in the second theorem. This result permits to state the main theorem of the solution existence and uniqueness for the above inverse problem for enough small \(T\) (where time \(0\leq t\leq T\)). In order to prove the main theorem, it is used the contraction mapping principle. The difficulty in the prooof is to show that the nonlinear operator maps a bounded closed convex set into itself in a suitable space. This requires that T must be small enough. An existence results with large \(T\) cannot be obtained for general data in this theorem. However, the considered 2D case can be generalized to 3D case and the same result can be obtained in the selection of the Lorentz and Temporal gauge without essential changes in arguments.