Order Reconstruction for Nematics on Squares and Hexagons: A Landau--de Gennes Study

DOI10.1137/16M1087990zbMath1371.35065arXiv1606.06575WikidataQ58619234 ScholiaQ58619234MaRDI QIDQ2967901

Giacomo Canevari, Apala Majumdar, Amy Spicer

Publication date: 9 March 2017

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06575

zbMATH Keywords

variational problemLandau-de Gennes critical point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Variational methods for elliptic systems (35J50) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

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