Regularity and the behavior of eigenvalues for minimizers of a constrained Q-tensor energy for liquid crystals

DOI10.1007/S00526-016-1009-4MaRDI QIDQ502226zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Patricia Bauman, Daniel Phillips

Publication date 3 January 2017

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.01039

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Variational methods for elliptic systems (35J50) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

Abstract: We investigate minimizers defined on a bounded domain in $mathbb{R}^2$ for the Maier--Saupe Q--tensor energy used to characterize nematic liquid crystal configurations. The energy density is singular, as in Ball and Mujamdar's modification of the Ginzburg--Landau Q--tensor model, so as to constrain the competing states to have eigenvalues in the closure of a physically realistic range. We prove that minimizers are regular and in several model problems we are able to use this regularity to prove that minimizers have eigenvalues strictly within the physical range.

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