Double vortex condensates in the Chern-Simons-Higgs theory

Abstract.

For a selfdual model introduced by Hong-Kim-Pac [18] and Jackiw-Weinberg [19] we study the existence of double vortex-condensates“bifurcating” from the symmetric vacuum state as the Chern-Simons coupling parameter k tends to zero. Surprisingly, we show a connection between the asymptotic behavior of the given double vortex as $k \to 0^{+}$ with the existence of extremal functions for a Sobolev inequality of the Moser-Trudinger's type on the flat 2-torus ([22], [1] and [15]). In fact, our construction yields to a “best” minimizing sequence for the (non-coercive) associated extremal problem, in the sense that, the infimum is attained if and only if the given minimizing sequence admits a convergent subsequence.