Topological aspects of liquid crystals

DOI10.1023/A:1016037308844zbMath0996.81092OpenAlexW92477400MaRDI QIDQ1612692

Hui Zhang, Guo-Hong Yang, Yi-Shi Duan

Publication date: 26 August 2002

Published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1016037308844

zbMATH Keywords

bifurcationtopological currentHopf indiceswrapping numberBrouwer degrees at the singularities of the general director fielddisclination point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of solids (82D20) Applications of manifolds of mappings to the sciences (58D30) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Bifurcations in context of PDEs (35B32)

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