Singular limits in polymer-stabilized liquid crystals

DOI10.1017/S0308210500002262MaRDI QIDQ4804468zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 28 April 2003

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Section A Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/s0308210500002262

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Homogenization in context of PDEs; PDEs in media with periodic structure (35B27) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Variational methods involving nonlinear operators (47J30) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

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