Abstract: | Generalizing previous results of M. Comte and P. Mironescu, itis shown that for degree d large enough (such that ), thereis a bifurcation branch in the set of the solutions of the Ginzburg-Landauequation, emanating from the branch of radial solutions at the critical valued of the parameter. Moreover, the solutions on the bifurcation branch admitexactly d zeroes, and the energy on the bifurcation branch is strictly smallerthan the energy on the radial branch. |