A necessary condition for lower semicontinuity of line energies

DOI10.1007/s00526-016-1093-5zbMath1439.49020arXiv1503.01021OpenAlexW2964048043MaRDI QIDQ522261

Pierre Bochard, Antonin Monteil

Publication date: 13 April 2017

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.01021

zbMATH Keywords

viscosity solutionlower semicontinuityenergy functionalsliquid crystal configurations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations in optimal control and differential games (49L25) Variational principles of physics (49S05)

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