Energy-minimizing nematic elastomers

DOI10.3934/dcdss.2015.8.259zbMath1319.49017MaRDI QIDQ479088

Patricia Baumann, Andrea C. Rubiano

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.2015.8.259

zbMATH Keywords

calculus of variations; trace formula; energy minimizers; liquid crystals; lower semi-continuity; nematic elastomers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

49J45: Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation

82D30: Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses)

76A15: Liquid crystals

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