Entire vortex solutions of negative degree for the anisotropic Ginzburg-Landau system

Semilinear elliptic equations (35J61) Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Symmetries, invariants, etc. in context of PDEs (35B06)

Abstract: The anisotropic Ginzburg-Landau system [ Delta u+delta, abla (mathrm{div}: u) +delta, mathrm{curl}^*(mathrm{curl}: u)=(|u|^2-1) u, ] for

u c o l o n m a t h b b R^{2} o m a t h b b R^{2}

and

d e l t a i n (- 1, 1)

, models the formation of vortices in liquid crystals. We prove the existence of entire solutions such that

| u (x) | o 1

and

u

has a prescribed topological degree

d l e q - 1

as

| x | o i n f t y

, for small values of the anisotropy parameter

| d e l t a | < d e l t a_{0} (d)

. Unlike the isotropic case

d e l t a = 0

, this cannot be reduced to a one-dimensional radial equation. We obtain these solutions by minimizing the anisotropic Ginzburg-Landau energy in an appropriate class of equivariant maps, with respect to a finite symmetry subgroup.

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