Liquid crystal defects in the Landau–de Gennes theory in two dimensions — Beyond the one-constant approximation

DOI10.1142/S0218202516500664zbMath1357.82071arXiv1608.03139MaRDI QIDQ2958493

Georgy Kitavtsev, Arghir Zarnescu, Valeriy V. Slastikov, Jonathan M. Robbins

Publication date: 2 February 2017

Published in: Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03139

zbMATH Keywords

liquid crystalsminimisers\(Q\)-tensors\(k\)-radially symmetric solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Liquid crystals (76A15) Bifurcations in context of PDEs (35B32) Critical points of functionals in context of PDEs (e.g., energy functionals) (35B38)

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