Bøger af Fabrice Bethuel

This book is concerned with the study in two dimensions of stationary solutions of ue of a complex valued Ginzburg-Landau equation involving a small parameter e. The number of these defects is exactly the Brouwer degree - or winding number - of the boundary condition.

The mathematics in this book apply directly to classical problems in superconductors, superfluids and liquid crystals. It should be of interest to mathematicians, physicists and engineers working on modern materials research.