Stability of half-degree point defect profiles for 2-D nematic liquid crystal

2016/01/12 by Zhiyuan Geng, Geng, Zhiyuan, Wei Wang +5
Materials Science · Mathematics · #Advanced Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems #Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #FOS: Mathematics #Liquid Crystal Research Advancements #Mathematics and Applications

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1601.02845

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Abstract

In this paper, we prove the stability of half-degree point defect profiles in ℝ² for the nematic liquid crystal within Landau-de Gennes model.

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