Variational reduction for semi-stiff Ginzburg-Landau vortices.

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Authors Rémy Rodiac

Publication date 18 December 2019

Published in Differential and Integral Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.00450

zbMATH Keywords

finite-dimensional reductionGinzburg-Landau vorticeslack of compactnesslinearizationprescribed degrees

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for elliptic systems (35J50) Nonlinear boundary value problems for nonlinear elliptic equations (35J66)

Abstract: Let $Omega$ be a smooth bounded domain in $mathbb{R}^2$. For $epsilon>0$ small, we construct non-constant solutions to the Ginzburg-Landau equations $-Deltau=frac1epsilo{n}^2(1-|u{|}^2)u$ in $Omega$ such that on $partialOmega$ u satisfies $|u|=1$ and $uwedgepartia{l}_{u}u=0$. These boundary conditions are called semi-stiff and are intermediate between the Dirichlet and the homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions. In order to construct such solutions we use a variational reduction method very similar to the one used by del Pino-Kowalczyk-Musso to find solutions of the Ginzburg-Landau equations with Dirichlet and homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions. We obtain the exact same result as the authors of the aforementioned article obtained for the Neumann problem. This is because the renormalized energy for the Neumann problem and for the semi-stiff problem are the same. In particular if $Omega$ is simply connected a solution with degree one on the boundary always exists and if $Omega$ is not simply connected then for any $kgeq1$ a solution with $k$ vortices of degree one exists.

Review text

In this article, the existence of solutions to the Ginzburg-Landau problem \[-\varepsilon^2\Delta u=(1-|u|^2)u\quad\text{ in }\Omega,\] is investigated. Here \(\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^2\) is a smooth and bounded domain. The above equation is complemented with the boundary conditions \[|u|=1\quad\text{ and }\quad\mathrm{Im}(\overline{u}\partial_\nu u)=0\qquad\text{ on }\partial\Omega.\] The approach relies on a variational reduction method in the spirit of [\textit{M. del Pino} et al., J. Funct. Anal. 239, No. 2, 497--541 (2006; Zbl 1387.35561)]. In particular, it is shown that: \begin{enumerate}\item If \(\Omega\) is simply connected, then a solution with degree one on the boundary always exists;\item If \(\Omega\) is not simply connected then for any \(k\geq 1\), a solution with \(k\) vortices of degree one exists.\end{enumerate}

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