Critical points and symmetries of a free energy function for biaxial nematic liquid crystals

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/28/5/1483zbMath1351.37209arXiv1401.6402OpenAlexW3098728315MaRDI QIDQ5251067

D. R. J. Chillingworth

Publication date: 22 May 2015

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.6402

zbMATH Keywords

symmetrybifurcationfree energyliquid crystalbiaxial nematic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Liquid crystals (76A15) Dynamical aspects of symmetries, equivariant bifurcation theory (37G40) Symmetries, equivariance on manifolds (58K70) Critical points of functions and mappings on manifolds (58K05)

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