The Yang–Mills–Higgs functional on complex line bundles: Asymptotics for critical points
Year:
2025
Type of item:
Articolo in Rivista
Tipologia ANVUR:
Articolo su rivista
Language:
Inglese
Format:
A Stampa
Referee:
Sì
Name of journal:
ADVANCES IN CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS
ISSN of journal:
1864-8258
N° Volume:
18
Number or Folder:
1
Page numbers:
95-141
Keyword:
Ginzburg–Landau functional; complex line bundles; London limit; stationary varifolds; monotonicity formula; Yang–Mills–Higgs functional
Short description of contents:
We consider a gauge-invariant Ginzburg–Landau functional (also known as Abelian Yang–Mills–Higgs model), on Hermitian line bundles over closed Riemannian manifolds of dimension
n
≥
3
. Assuming a logarithmic energy bound in the coupling parameter, we study the asymptotic behaviour of critical points in the London limit. After a convenient choice of the gauge, we show compactness of finite-energy critical points in Sobolev norms. Moreover, thanks to a suitable monotonicity formula, we prove that the energy densities of critical points, rescaled by the logarithm of the coupling parameter, converge to the weight measure of a stationary, rectifiable varifold of codimension 2.