Equilibria of vortex type Hamiltonians on closed surfaces

Mohameden Ahmedou, Thomas Bartsch, Tim Fiernkranz

We prove the existence of critical points of vortex type Hamiltonians \[ H(p_1,\ldots, p_N) = \sum_{{i,j=1},{i\ne j}}^N Γ_iΓ_jG(p_i,p_j)+ψ(p_1,\dots,p_N) \] on a closed Riemannian…