Orientability and energy minimization in liquid crystal models

DOI10.1007/S00205-011-0421-3zbMATH Open1263.76010arXiv1009.2688OpenAlexW3100841396MaRDI QIDQ715340FDOQ715340

Arghir Zarnescu, J. M. Ball

Publication date: 5 November 2012

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Uniaxial nematic liquid crystals are modelled in the Oseen-Frank theory through a unit vector field $n$. This theory has the apparent drawback that it does not respect the head-to-tail symmetry in which $n$ should be equivalent to -$n$. This symmetry is preserved in the constrained Landau-de Gennes theory that works with the tensor $$.We study the differences and the overlaps between the two theories. These depend on the regularity class used as well as on the topology of the underlying domain. We show that for simply-connected domains and in the natural energy class $W^{1,2}$ the two theories coincide, but otherwise there can be differences between the two theories, which we identify. In the case of planar domains we completely characterise the instances in which the predictions of the constrained Landau-de Gennes theory differ from those of the Oseen-Frank theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.2688

zbMATH Keywords

Landau-de Gennes theoryhead-to-tail symmetryOseen-Frank theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Liquid crystals (76A15) Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30)

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