Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4604073 | Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare (C) Non Linear Analysis | 2016 | 22 Pages |
Abstract
We study a class of symmetric critical points in a variational 2D Landau–de Gennes model where the state of nematic liquid crystals is described by symmetric traceless 3×33×3 matrices. These critical points play the role of topological point defects carrying a degree k2 for a nonzero integer k . We prove existence and study the qualitative behavior of these symmetric solutions. Our main result is the instability of critical points when |k|≥2|k|≥2.
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Authors
Radu Ignat, Luc Nguyen, Valeriy Slastikov, Arghir Zarnescu,