On the existence of skyrmions in planar liquid crystals

DOI10.12775/TMNA.2019.053MaRDI QIDQ2178772zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Carlo Greco

Publication date 11 May 2020

Published in Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.tmna/1570413618

zbMATH Keywords

Bogomol'nyi decompositionconcentration compactnessliquid crystalsskyrmions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton solutions (35C08) Integro-partial differential equations (35R09) Applications of variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces to the sciences (58E50) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

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