On the stability of radial solutions to an anisotropic Ginzburg-Landau equation

DOI10.1137/21M1433939zbMATH Open1483.35233arXiv2106.16063OpenAlexW3176604669MaRDI QIDQ5024693FDOQ5024693

Authors: Xavier Lamy, Andres Zuniga 

Publication date: 27 January 2022

Published in: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the linear stability of entire radial solutions $u(r{e}^{iheta})=f(r)e^{iheta}$, with positive increasing profile $f(r)$, to the anisotropic Ginzburg-Landau equation [ -Delta u -delta (partial_x+ipartial_y)^2�ar u =(1-|u|^2)u,quad -1<delta <1, ] which arises in various liquid crystal models. In the isotropic case $delta=0$, Mironescu showed that such solution is nondegenerately stable. We prove stability of this radial solution in the range $deltain(delt{a}_1,0]$ for some $-1<delt{a}_1<0$, and instability outside this range. In strong contrast with the isotropic case, stability with respect to higher Fourier modes is emph{not} a direct consequence of stability with respect to lower Fourier modes. In particular, in the case where $deltaapprox-1$, lower modes are stable and yet higher modes are unstable.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.16063

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zbMATH Keywords

liquid crystalsGinzburg-Landauelastic anisotropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Liquid crystals (76A15) Symmetries, invariants, etc. in context of PDEs (35B06) Ginzburg-Landau equations (35Q56) Integro-partial differential equations (35R09)

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