Stability of the vortex defect in the Landau-de Gennes theory for nematic liquid crystals

DOI10.1016/j.crma.2013.07.012zbMath1276.35030MaRDI QIDQ373672

Arghir Zarnescu, Luc Nguyen, Radu Ignat, Valeriy V. Slastikov

Publication date: 18 October 2013

Published in: Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1631073X13001702

zbMATH Keywords

existence; uniqueness; melting hedgehog

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35B35: Stability in context of PDEs

35J20: Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations

35B07: Axially symmetric solutions to PDEs

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