Ginzburg-Landau vortices

✍ Scribed by Haim Brezis, Daqian Li

• Book ID: 127431864
• Publisher: Higher Education Press; World Scientific Publishing, Co
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Series: Series in contemporary applied mathematics 5
• Category: Library
• City: Beijing, China :, Singapore
• ISBN: 9812701184

✦ Synopsis

The Ginzburg–Landau equation as a mathematical model of superconductors has become an extremely useful tool in many areas of physics where vortices carrying a topological charge appear. The remarkable progress in the mathematical understanding of this equation involves a combined use of mathematical tools from many branches of mathematics. The Ginzburg–Landau model has been an amazing source of new problems and new ideas in analysis, geometry and topology. This collection will meet the urgent needs of the specialists, scholars and graduate students working in this area or related areas.