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Layered solutions for a nonlocal Ginzburg-Landau model with periodic modulation
Mathematics in Engineering 2023, 5(5): 1-52
Published: 15 October 2023
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We study layered solutions in a one-dimensional version of the scalar Ginzburg-Landau equation that involves a mixture of a second spatial derivative and a fractional half-derivative, together with a periodically modulated nonlinearity. This equation appears as the Euler-Lagrange equation of a suitably renormalized fractional Ginzburg-Landau energy with a double-well potential that is multiplied by a 1-periodically varying nonnegative factor g ( x ) with 0 1 1 g ( x ) d x < . A priori this energy is not bounded below due to the presence of a nonlocal term in the energy. Nevertheless, through a careful analysis of a minimizing sequence we prove existence of global energy minimizers that connect the two wells at infinity. These minimizers are shown to be the classical solutions of the associated nonlocal Ginzburg-Landau type equation.

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