Capacity of a multiply-connected domain and nonexistence of Ginzburg-Landau minimizers with prescribed degrees on the boundary

arXivmath/0601018MaRDI QIDQ6476528FDOQ6476528

Authors: Leonid Berlyand, Dmitry Golovaty, V. Rybalko

Publication date: 1 January 2006

Abstract: Suppose that

o m e g a s u b s e t O m e g a s u b s e t R^{2}

. In the annular domain

we consider the class

J

of complex valued maps having degree 1 on

p a r t i a l O m e g a

and on

p a r t i a l o m e g a

. It was conjectured by Berlyand and Mironescu ('04), that he existence of minimizers of the Ginzburg-Landau energy

E_{k} a p p a

in

J

is completely determined by the value of the

H^{1}

-capacity

c a p (A)

of the domain and the value of the Ginzburg-Landau parameter

k a p p a

. The existence of minimizers of

E_{k} a p p a

for all

k a p p a

when

c a p (A) g e q p i

(domain

A

is ``thin) and for small $k a p p a$ when $c a p (A) < p i$ (domain $A$ is ``thick) was established by Berlyand and Mironescu ('04). Here we provide the answer for the remaining case of large

k a p p a

when

c a p (A) < p i

. We prove that, when

c a p (A) < p i

, there exists a finite threshold value

k a p p a_{1}

of the Ginzburg-Landau parameter

k a p p a

such that the minimum of the Ginzburg-Landau energy

E_{k} a p p a

is not attained in

J

when

k a p p a > k a p p a_{1}

while it is attained when

k a p p a < k a p p a_{1}

.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20)

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