Vortex sheet solutions for the Ginzburg-Landau system in cylinders: symmetry and global minimality

DOI10.1007/S00526-023-02628-XMaRDI QIDQ6143897zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Radu Ignat, Mircea-Dan Rus

Publication date 24 January 2024

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11430

zbMATH Keywords

Ginzburg-Landau-type energy functionalminimizersradial symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Symmetries, invariants, etc. in context of PDEs (35B06) Boundary value problems for higher-order elliptic systems (35J58)

Abstract: We consider the Ginzburg-Landau energy $E_{e}psilon$ for $mathbb{R}^M$-valued maps defined in a cylinder shape domain $B^{N}imes(0,1{)}^n$ satisfying a degree-one vortex boundary condition on $partial{B}^{N}imes(0,1{)}^n$ in dimensions $MgeqNgeq2$ and $ngeq1$. The aim is to study the radial symmetry of global minimizers of this variational problem. We prove the following: if $Ngeq7$, then for every $epsilon>0$, there exists a unique global minimizer which is given by the non-escaping radially symmetric vortex sheet solution $u_{e}psilon(x,z)=(f_{e}psilon(|x|)fracx|x|,0_{mathbb{R}^{M-N}})$, $forallxin{B}^N$ that is invariant in $zin(0,1{)}^n$. If $2leqNleq6$ and $MgeqN+1$, the following dichotomy occurs between escaping and non-escaping solutions: there exists $epsilo{n}_N>0$ such that $$ if $epsilonin(0,epsilo{n}_N)$, then every global minimizer is an escaping radially symmetric vortex sheet solution of the form $Rilde{u}_{e}psilon$ where $ilde{u}_{epsilon}(x,z)=(ilde{f}_{epsilon}(|x|)fracx|x|,0_{mathbb{R}^{M-N-1}},g_{epsilon}(|x|))$ is invariant in $z$-direction with $g_{e}psilon>0$ in $(0,1)$ and $RinO(M)$ is an orthogonal transformation keeping invariant the space $mathbb{R}^{N}imes{0}_{mathbb{R}^{M-N}}$; $$ if $epsilongeqepsilo{n}_N$, then the non-escaping radially symmetric vortex sheet solution $u_{e}psilon(x,z)=(f_{e}psilon(|x|)fracx|x|,0_{mathbb{R}^{M-N}})$, $forallxin{B}^N,zin(0,1{)}^n$ is the unique global minimizer; moreover, there are no bounded escaping solutions in this case. We also discuss the problem of vortex sheet $mathbb{S}^{M-1}$-valued harmonic maps.

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