On a variational problem of nematic liquid crystal droplets

DOI10.1515/9783110792720-005MaRDI QIDQ6060176zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Qinfeng Li, Changyou Wang

Publication date 3 November 2023

Published in Potentials and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.01218

zbMATH Keywords

energy functional liquid crystal droplets minimizers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20)

Abstract: Let

m u > 0

be a fixed constant, and we prove that minimizers to the following energy functional �egin{align*} E_f(u,Omega):=int_{Omega}|

abla u|^2+mu P(Omega) end{align*}exist among pairs $(O m e g a, u)$ such that $O m e g a$ is an $M$ -uniform domain with finite perimeter and fixed volume, and $u i n H^{1} (O m e g a, m a t h b b S^{2})$ with $u = u_{O m e g a}$ , the measure-theoretical outer unit normal, almost everywhere on the reduced boundary of $O m e g a$ . The uniqueness of optimal configurations in various settings is also obtained. In addition, we consider a general energy functional given by �egin{align*} E_f(u,Omega):=int_{Omega} | abla u(x)|^2 ,dx + int_{partial^* Omega} f�ig(u(x)cdot

u_{Omega}(x)�ig) ,dmathcal{H}^2(x), end{align*}where

p a r t i a l^{*} O m e g a

is the reduced boundary of

O m e g a

and

f

is a convex positive function on

m a t h b b R

. We prove that minimizers of

E_{f}

also exist among

M

-uniform outer-minimizing domains

O m e g a

with fixed volume and

u i n H^{1} (O m e g a, m a t h b b S^{2})

.

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