Existence and Uniqueness of BPS Vacuum and Multi-vortices in Inhomogeneous Abelian Higgs Model

Abstract

The BPS limit of the inhomogeneous abelian Higgs model is considered in $(1+2)$-dimensions. The second order Bogomolny equation is examined in the presence of an inhomogeneity expressed as a function of spatial coordinates. Assuming a physically reasonable upper bound on the $L^2({\mathbb{R}}^2)$ norm of the inhomogeneity function, we prove the existence and the uniqueness of nontrivial BPS vacuum solution of zero energy and topological BPS multi-vortex solutions of quantized positive energies.

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