This book is concerned with the study in two dimensions of stationary solutions of u_ɛ of a complex valued Ginzburg-Landau equation involving a small parameter ɛ. Such problems are related to questions occurring in physics, e.g., phase transition phenomena in superconductors and superfluids. The parameter ɛ has a dimension of a length which is usually small. Thus, it is of great interest to study the asymptotics as ɛ tends to zero.

One of the main results asserts that the limit u-star of minimizers u_ɛ exists. Moreover, u-star is smooth...