Tangent unit-vector fields: nonabelian homotopy invariants and the Dirichlet energy

DOI10.1016/S0252-9602(10)60131-2zbMath1240.58010arXiv0907.0478MaRDI QIDQ717326

Jonathan M. Robbins, Maxim Zyskin, Apala Majumdar

Publication date: 29 September 2011

Published in: Acta Mathematica Scientia. Series B. (English Edition) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.0478

zbMATH Keywords

combinatoricsalgebraic topologyharmonic mapsconformal mapsliquid crystalsnon-Abelian homotopy invariants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

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