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The existence of the Ginzburg–Landau vortex number is established for any configuration with finite action. As a consequence, Bogomol'nyi's formula for the critical action is valid for any finite action configuration.
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Received: 16 November 1999 / Accepted: 7 July 2000
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Aigner, M. Existence of the Ginzburg--Landau Vortex Number. Commun. Math. Phys. 216, 17–22 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002200000319
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