Published Paper

Inserted: 20 sep 2023
Last Updated: 9 oct 2025

Journal: Math. Ann.
Volume: 393
Pages: 71-111
Year: 2025
Doi: 10.1007/s00208-025-03230-6

Abstract:

We prove that, on a planar regular domain, suitably scaled functionals of Ginzburg--Landau type, given by the sum of quadratic fractional Sobolev seminorms and a penalization term vanishing on the unitary sphere, $\Gamma$-converge to vortex-type energies with respect to the flat convergence of Jacobians. The compactness and the $\Gamma$-$\liminf$ follow by comparison with standard Ginzburg--Landau functionals depending on Riesz potentials. The $\Gamma$-$\limsup$, instead, is achieved via a direct argument by joining a finite number of vortex-like functions suitably truncated around the singularity.

Keywords: Gamma-convergence, Fractional Gradient, Ginzburg-Landau Model, Riesz potential, topological singularity, vortex, flat convergence

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