Elastic energy for reflection-symmetric topologies

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/11/008zbMath1099.82019arXivmath-ph/0507055OpenAlexW2019653098MaRDI QIDQ3379376

Apala Majumdar, Maxim Zyskin, Jonathan M. Robbins

Publication date: 6 April 2006

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0507055

zbMATH Keywords

nematic liquid crystalselastic energytopologiesdirector field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Connections of general topology with other structures, applications (54H99)

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