On the minimizers of a Ginzburg-Landau-type energy when the boundary condition has zeros (Q2501608)

The paper deals with the minimizers \(\{u_\varepsilon\}\) of the Ginzburg--Landau-type energy \[ E_\varepsilon(u)=\int_\Omega | \nabla u| ^2 + {1\over \varepsilon^2} \int_\Omega (1-| u| ^2)^2 \] over the set \(H^1_g(\Omega,\mathbb R^2)=\left\{u\in H^1(\Omega,\mathbb R^2)\colon\;u=g\;\text{on}\;\partial\Omega\right\}.\) The asymptotic behaviour is described (as \(\varepsilon\to0\)) of \(\{u_\varepsilon\}\) and their energies in the case when \(g\) has isolated zeros.