Existence and partial regularity of static liquid crystal configurations

DOI10.1007/BF01238933zbMath0611.35077MaRDI QIDQ1087741

Fang-Hua Lin, David Kinderlehrer, Robert M. Hardt

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

existence; partial regularity; boundary problem; liquid crystal; Oseen-Frank free energy; static theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35B65: Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs

82D25: Statistical mechanics of crystals

35D99: Generalized solutions to partial differential equations

35Q82: PDEs in connection with statistical mechanics

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