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Static problems of the chiral smectic and bent core liquid crystals focusing on the role of the spontaneous polarization

Presenter
July 23, 2008
Keywords:
  • Mathematical modeling
MSC:
  • 93A30
Abstract
In this talk, we first discuss mathematical modeling of ferroelectric liquid crystals with existence results. With a special geometry, we consider a one dimensional problem with an applied field. We present existence of finitely many equilibrium branches and nested hysteresis loops between the polarization and applied fields, which show finer structures of ferroelectric materials.