Partial Regularity Results for A Variational Problem for Nematic Liquid Crystal.
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Mon, 24/10/2011 17:00 |
Hung Tran (University of California, Berkeley) |
Partial Differential Equations Seminar  |
Gibson 1st Floor SR |
| This is a joint work with Craig Evans. We study the partial regularity of minimizers for certain functionals in the calculus of variations, namely the modified Landau-de Gennes energy functional in nematic liquid crystal theory introduced by Ball and Majumdar. | |||