TY - JOUR
T1 - Ginzburg-Landau Vortex Lines and the Elastica Functional
AU - Moser, Roger
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - We examine the asymptotic behavior of a family of second-order functionals arising in the theory of Ginzburg-Landau vortices. The results point towards Gamma-convergence with the elastica functional for generalized curves as the limit.
AB - We examine the asymptotic behavior of a family of second-order functionals arising in the theory of Ginzburg-Landau vortices. The results point towards Gamma-convergence with the elastica functional for generalized curves as the limit.
KW - Ginzburg-Landau vortices
KW - elastica functional
KW - curvature
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=65249109921&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0219199709003284
U2 - 10.1142/S0219199709003284
DO - 10.1142/S0219199709003284
M3 - Article
SN - 0219-1997
VL - 11
SP - 71
EP - 107
JO - Communications in Contemporary Mathematics
JF - Communications in Contemporary Mathematics
IS - 1
ER -