Entire solutions to 4 dimensional Ginzburg-Landau equations and codimension 2 minimal submanifolds (Q6147110)

In this very deep and interesting paper, the authors consider the magnetic Ginzburg-Landau energy in \(\mathbb R^n\). This energy arises in the classical Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductivity; \(|u|^2\) is the density of Cooper pairs of superconducting electrons where \(u\) is the solution of the Euler-Lagrange equation of the functional. The zero set of \(u\) is interpreted as that of defects of the underlying material where superconductivity is lost. The purpose of this paper is to construct entire suitable approximate solutions in \(\mathbb R^4\) extending the known results in \(\mathbb R^3\).