Analysis of a Ginzburg-Landau type energy model for smectic C^ liquid crystals with defects

DOI10.1016/J.ANIHPC.2012.12.010MaRDI QIDQ2446366zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sean Colbert-Kelly, Daniel Phillips

Publication date 16 April 2014

Published in Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Analyse Non Linéaire (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anihpc.2012.12.010

zbMATH Keywords

minimizersGinzburg-Landau type modelliquid crystal film

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Liquid crystals (76A15) Ginzburg-Landau equations (35Q56) Integro-partial differential equations (35R09) Optimality conditions for problems involving partial differential equations (49K20) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

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