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Title Properties of minimizers to the Maier-Saupe energy for liquid crystals.

Name Daniel Phillips
Country USA
Email phillips@math.purdue.edu
Co-Author(s) Patricia Bauman
Submit Time 2014-02-25 10:03:33
Session
Special Session 71: Recent progress in spintronics: Experiment, theory and simulation
Contents
We prove regularity properties and determine bounds for local minimizers to an energy derived from Maier-Saupe theory that is used to characterize order in nematic liquid crystal materials.