Periodic Orbits of Gross Pitaevskii in the Disc with Vortices Following Point Vortex Flow

Abstract

We prove the existence of non-constant time periodic vortex solutions to the Gross-Pitaevskii equations for small but \textit{fixed} $\epsilon >0.$ The vortices of these solutions follow periodic orbits to the point vortex system of ordinary differential equations \textit{for all time}. The construction uses two approaches-- constrained minimization techniques adapted from \cite{GS} and topological minimax techniques adapted from \cite{LinMinMax}, applied to a formulation of the problem within a rotational ansatz.

arXiv comment36 pages. Final version- exposition was substantially streamlined thanks to a detailed referee report. To appear in Calc. Var. & PDE