Radially symmetric minimizers for a \(p\)-Ginzburg-Landau type energy in \({\mathbb R^2}\) (Q644997)

For the \(p\)-Ginzburg-Landau energy functional, the authors prove existence and uniqueness of a radially symmetric minimizer of degree 1: \(u_p=f(r)e^{i \theta}\). In addition, for the modulus of \(u_p\), \(f_p(r)\), they show: \(f_p(r) \in C^\infty(0,\infty)\); \(f_p'>0\) in \((0,\infty)\); \(f_p(r)\) behaves asymptotically like \(\frac{1}{r^p}\) as \(r \rightarrow \infty\); and as \(p \rightarrow \infty\), \(f_p(r)\) converges (in the \(L^\infty\) norm) to a piecewise linear function \(f_\infty(r) = r/\sqrt{2}\) for \(r < \sqrt{2}\) and equal to \(1\) for \(r \geq \sqrt{2}\). Finally, the authors show that for \(2<p \leq 4\), the degree one radial solution \(u_p=f(r)e^{i \theta}\) is stable in the sense that the quadratic form associated with the Hessian of the \(p\)-Ginzburg-Landau energy functional at \(u_p\) is non-negative on a suitable admissible space of perturbations, and is identically equal to zero on the space spanned by the tangent vectors coming from the rotational and translational symmetries.