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

DOI10.1137/21M1433939MaRDI QIDQ5024693zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xavier Lamy, Andres Zuniga

Publication date 27 January 2022

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

elastic anisotropyGinzburg-Landauliquid crystals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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