Metastable nematic hedgehogs
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Publication:4390168
DOI10.1088/0305-4470/29/14/041zbMath0902.34045OpenAlexW2095005861MaRDI QIDQ4390168
Epifanio G. Virga, Riccardo Rosso
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
nematic liquid crystalslocal stabilityLandau-de Gennes functionalelastic constantsbiaxial perturbationsPenzenstadler and Trebin's modelradial hedgehogs
Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25) Structural stability and analogous concepts of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34D30) Statistical mechanics of liquids (82D15)
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