Maps into projective spaces: liquid crystal and conformal energies

DOI10.3934/dcdsb.2012.17.597zbMath1235.49087OpenAlexW2328933992MaRDI QIDQ765030

Domenico Mucci

Publication date: 19 March 2012

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3934/dcdsb.2012.17.597

zbMATH Keywords

projective spacesliquid crystalsconformal energies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sobolev spaces and other spaces of ``smooth functions, embedding theorems, trace theorems (46E35) Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Liquid crystals (76A15)

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