Metastable nematic hedgehogs

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/29/14/041MaRDI QIDQ4390168zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Riccardo Rosso, Epifanio G. Virga

Publication date 2 November 1998

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/29/14/041

zbMATH Keywords

biaxial perturbationselastic constantsLandau-de Gennes functionallocal stabilitynematic liquid crystalsPenzenstadler and Trebin's modelradial hedgehogs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structural stability and analogous concepts of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34D30) Statistical mechanics of liquids (82D15) Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25)

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