Metastable nematic hedgehogs

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

zbMATH Keywords

nematic liquid crystalslocal stabilityLandau-de Gennes functionalelastic constantsbiaxial perturbationsPenzenstadler and Trebin's modelradial hedgehogs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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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