Existence of solutions to boundary value problems for smectic liquid crystals

DOI10.3934/dcdss.2015.8.243zbMath1344.49016OpenAlexW1993320145MaRDI QIDQ479086

Patricia Baumann, Jinhae Park, Daniel R. Phillips

Publication date: 5 December 2014

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series S (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3934/dcdss.2015.8.243

zbMATH Keywords

boundary value problemslower semicontinuityelliptic equationscalculus of variationsferroelectricsChen-Lubensky energysmectic liquid crystals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational inequalities (49J40) Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Variational methods for elliptic systems (35J50) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic systems (35J57)

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