Topological defects in the abelian Higgs model

DOI10.3934/dcds.2015.35.1933zbMath1310.35169arXiv1210.2669MaRDI QIDQ484417

Magdalena Czubak, Robert Leon Jerrard

Publication date: 7 January 2015

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.2669

zbMATH Keywords

minimizers; cosmic strings; Nambu-Goto action; Nielsen-Olesen vortex line; timelike minimal surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35B40: Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs

49Q05: Minimal surfaces and optimization

35L70: Second-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations

81T13: Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory

35Q85: PDEs in connection with astronomy and astrophysics