Vector field models for nematic disclinations

DOI10.1007/S00332-023-09939-5MaRDI QIDQ6170844zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Amit Acharya, Irene Fonseca, Likhit Ganedi, Kerrek Stinson

Publication date 10 August 2023

Published in Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09353

zbMATH Keywords

constrained minimizationliquid crystalsenergy relaxationdisclinations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Crystals in solids (74N05) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

Abstract: In this paper, a model for defects that was introduced in cite{ZANV} is studied. In the literature, the setting of most models for defects is the function space SBV (special bounded variation functions) (see, e.g., cite{ContiGarroni, GoldmanSerfaty}). However, this model regularizes the director field to be in a Sobolev space by adding a second field to incorporate the defect. A relaxation result in the case of fixed parameters is proven along with some partial compactness results.

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