On the existence of skyrmions in planar liquid crystals

DOI10.12775/TMNA.2019.053zbMATH Open1439.82051OpenAlexW2979462781MaRDI QIDQ2178772FDOQ2178772

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

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zbMATH Keywords

liquid crystalsconcentration compactnessskyrmionsBogomol'nyi decomposition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton solutions (35C08) Integro-partial differential equations (35R09) 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) Applications of variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces to the sciences (58E50)

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• A quantitative description of skyrmions in ultrathin ferromagnetic films and rigidity of degree \(\pm 1\) harmonic maps from \(\mathbb{R}^2\) to \(\mathbb{S}^2\)

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