Abstract
Considered here is a system of smectic liquid crystals possessing polarizations described by the Oseen-Frank and Chen-Lubensky energies. We establish partial regularity of minimizers for the governing energy functional using the idea of (c,β)-almost minimizer introduced in [9].
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1499-1511 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems- Series A |
Volume | 33 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2013 Apr |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Analysis
- Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
- Applied Mathematics