Radially symmetric minimizers for a $p$-Ginzburg Landau type energy in ${\mathbb{R}}^2$

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 \rightarrow \infty. Finally, we prove that the radially symmetric solution is locally stable for $p$ in the interval $(2,4]$.

31 pages. Calc. Var. PDE (to appear)