Weak Stability of The Map x/|x| For Liquid Crystal Functionals

DOI10.1080/03605309908820703zbMath0716.49001OpenAlexW1997270490MaRDI QIDQ3203593

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Publication date: 1990

Published in: Communications in Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03605309908820703

zbMATH Keywords

uncertainty principleliquid crystal theoryweakly stable equilibrium

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence theories for free problems in two or more independent variables (49J10) Variational principles of physics (49S05)

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