Ginzburg-Landau relaxation for harmonic maps on planar domains into a general compact vacuum manifold

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Abstract: We study the asymptotic behaviour, as a small parameter varepsilon tends to zero, of minimisers of a Ginzburg-Landau type energy with a nonlinear penalisation potential vanishing on a compact submanifold mathcalN and with a given mathcalN-valued Dirichlet boundary data. We show that minimisers converge up to a subsequence to a singular mathcalN-valued harmonic map, which is smooth outside a finite number of points around which the energy concentrates and whose singularities' location minimises a renormalised energy, generalising known results by Bethuel, Brezis and H'elein for the circle mathbbS1. We also obtain Gamma-convergence results and uniform Marcinkiewicz weak L2 or Lorentz L2 estimates on the derivatives. We prove that solutions to the corresponding Euler-Lagrange equation converge uniformly to the constraint and converge to harmonic maps away from singularities.




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