Radially symmetric minimizers for a p-Ginzburg-Landau type energy in R^2

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Abstract: We consider the minimization of a p-Ginzburg-Landau energy functional over the class of radially symmetric functions of degree one. We prove the existence of a unique minimizer in this class, and show that its modulus is monotone increasing and concave. We also study the asymptotic limit of the minimizers as p ightarrow infty. Finally, we prove that the radially symmetric solution is locally stable for p in the interval (2,4].


For the \(p\)-Ginzburg-Landau energy functional, the authors prove existence and uniqueness of a radially symmetric minimizer of degree 1: \(u_p=f(r)e^{i \theta}\). In addition, for the modulus of \(u_p\), \(f_p(r)\), they show: \(f_p(r) \in C^\infty(0,\infty)\); \(f_p'>0\) in \((0,\infty)\); \(f_p(r)\) behaves asymptotically like \(\frac{1}{r^p}\) as \(r \rightarrow \infty\); and as \(p \rightarrow \infty\), \(f_p(r)\) converges (in the \(L^\infty\) norm) to a piecewise linear function \(f_\infty(r) = r/\sqrt{2}\) for \(r < \sqrt{2}\) and equal to \(1\) for \(r \geq \sqrt{2}\). Finally, the authors show that for \(2<p \leq 4\), the degree one radial solution \(u_p=f(r)e^{i \theta}\) is stable in the sense that the quadratic form associated with the Hessian of the \(p\)-Ginzburg-Landau energy functional at \(u_p\) is non-negative on a suitable admissible space of perturbations, and is identically equal to zero on the space spanned by the tangent vectors coming from the rotational and translational symmetries.











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