Defects of liquid crystals with variable degree of orientation

Onur Alper; Robert Hardt; Fang Hua Lin

doi:10.1007/s00526-017-1218-5

Defects of liquid crystals with variable degree of orientation

Onur Alper, Robert Hardt, Fang Hua Lin

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The defect set of minimizers of the modified Ericksen energy for nematic liquid crystals consists locally of a finite union of isolated points and Hölder continuous curves with finitely many crossings.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	128
Journal	Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations
Volume	56
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-017-1218-5
State	Published - Oct 1 2017

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