Global minimality of the degree-one Ginzburg-Landau vortex solution in the unit ball in dimensions $n \geq 2$

Abstract

We consider the problem of minimizing the Ginzburg-Landau functional among $\mathbb{R}^n$-valued maps from the unit ball $B \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ with vortex boundary condition $u(x) = x$ on $\partial B$. We show that, for every Ginzburg-Landau parameter $\varepsilon > 0$, there exists a unique minimizer given exactly by the rotationally symmetric vortex solution in dimension $n\geq 2$.