Landau-de Gennes corrections to the Oseen-Frank theory of nematic liquid crystals

DOI10.1007/s00205-019-01488-0zbMath1436.76002arXiv1904.02410OpenAlexW3100976398WikidataQ126462445 ScholiaQ126462445MaRDI QIDQ2304901

Valeriy V. Slastikov, Jonathan M. Robbins, Giovanni Di Fratta, Arghir Zarnescu

Publication date: 9 March 2020

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02410

zbMATH Keywords

minimizergamma convergence\(Q\)-tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for elliptic systems (35J50) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Liquid crystals (76A15) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic systems (35J57)

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