Local minimizers of the Ginzburg-Landau functional with prescribed degrees

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Abstract: We consider, in a smooth bounded multiply connected domain domsubsetR2, the Ginzburg-Landau energy dEv(u)=1/2intdom|u|2+frac14v2intdom(1|u|2)2 subject to prescribed degree conditions on each component of pdom. In general, minimal energy maps do not exist cite{BeMi1}. When dom has a single hole, Berlyand and Rybalko cite{BeRy1} proved that for small v local minimizers do exist. We extend the result in cite{BeRy1}: dEv(u) has, in domains dom with 2,3,... holes and for small v, local minimizers. Our approach is very similar to the one in cite{BeRy1}; the main difference stems in the construction of test functions with energy control.









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