$Q$-Tensor Continuum Energies as Limits of Head-to-Tail Symmetric Spin Systems

DOI10.1137/130941341zbMath1321.49024arXiv1310.4084OpenAlexW1691830514MaRDI QIDQ5500577

Marco Cicalese, Francesco Solombrino, Andrea Braides

Publication date: 7 August 2015

Published in: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.4084

zbMATH Keywords

multiscale analysis\(\Gamma\)-convergencespin systems\(Q\)-tensors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Discrete approximations in optimal control (49M25)

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