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On a family of solutions of the second Painlevé equation related to superconductivity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1998

Bernard Helffer
Affiliation:
Département de Mathématiques, Université Paris-Sud, UA 760 du CNRS, Bat. 425, F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France
Fred B. Weissler
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Analyse, Géométrie et Applications, Université Paris-Nord, UMR 7539 du CNRS, Institut Galilée, F-93430 Villetaneuse, France
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Abstract

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In a recent paper devoted to the study of the superheating field attached to a semi-infinite superconductor, Chapman [1] constructs a family of approximate solutions of the Ginzburg–Landau system. This construction, based on a matching procedure, implicitly uses the existence of a family of solutions depending on a parameter cIR of the Painlevé equation in a semi-infinite interval (0, +∞)

with a Neumann condition at 0

and having a prescribed behaviour at +∞

In this paper we prove the existence of such a family of solutions and investigate its properties. Moreover, we prove that the second coefficient in Chapman's expansion of the superheating field is finite.

Type
Research Article
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Copyright © 1998 Cambridge University Press