Symmetry of uniaxial global Landau-de Gennes minimizers in the theory of nematic liquid crystals

DOI10.1137/110856861MaRDI QIDQ4907541zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Duvan Henao, Apala Majumdar

Publication date 4 February 2013

Published in SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.6414

zbMATH Keywords

low temperature limitradial-hedgehog solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Variational methods for elliptic systems (35J50) Liquid crystals (76A15) Symmetries, invariants, etc. in context of PDEs (35B06) Blow-up in context of PDEs (35B44) Ginzburg-Landau equations (35Q56) Optimality conditions for problems involving partial differential equations (49K20) Optimality conditions for solutions belonging to restricted classes (Lipschitz controls, bang-bang controls, etc.) (49K30)

Abstract: We study uniaxial energy-minimizers within the Landau-de Gennes theory for nematic liquid crystals on a three-dimensional spherical droplet subject to homeotropic boundary conditions. We work in the low-temperature regime and show that uniaxial energy-minimizers necessarily have the structure of the well-studied radial-hedgehog solution in the low-temperature limit. An immediate consequence of this result is that Landau-de Gennes energy minimizers cannot be purely uniaxial for sufficiently low temperatures.

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