Variational problems on multiply connected thin strips III: Integration of the Ginzburg-Landau equations over graphs

We analyze the one-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau functional of superconductivity on a planar graph. In the Euler-Lagrange equations, the equation for the phase can be integrated, provided that the order parameter does not vanish at the vertices; in this case, the minimization of the Ginzburg-Landau functional is equivalent to the minimization of another functional, whose unknowns are a real-valued function on the graph and a finite set of integers.