Abstract
We prove that for fields close enough to the first critical field, minimizers of the Ginzburg-Landau functional have a number of vortices bounded independently from the Ginzburg-Landau parameter. This generalizes a result proved in [SS1] and shows that locally minimizing solutions of the Ginzburg-Landau equation found in [Sl, S3] are actually global minimizers. It also gives a partial answer to a question raised by F. Bethuel and T. Rivière in [BR].
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 17-28 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations |
Volume | 17 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 2003 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Analysis
- Applied Mathematics