Distribution of vortices in a type-II superconductor as a free boundary problem: Existence and regularity via Nash-Moser theory (Q5955674)

Summary: This paper is concerned with a model describing the distribution of vortices in a type-lI superconductor. These vortices are distributed continuously and occupy an unknown region \(D\) with \(\partial D\) representing the free boundary. The problem is set as follows: two constants \(H_0> H_1>0\) are given, to find an open subset \(D\) of the smooth bounded open set \(\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^2\) and a function \(H\) defined on \(\overline{ \Omega \setminus D}\) such that: \[ \text{div} \biggl(F\bigl (|\nabla H|^2\bigr) \nabla H\biggr)-H= 0\quad \text{in }\Omega \setminus \overline D, \] where the function \(F\) is analytic positive increasing, \[ H=H_0\text{ on }\partial \Omega, \quad H=H_1, \quad{ \partial H\over \partial n}=0\quad\text{on }\partial D. \] Here we prove the existence of a solution \(H\) with a domain \(D\) having an analytic boundary. We use the Nash-Moser inverse function theorem applied to a degenerate case.