Published Paper
Inserted: 1 mar 2010
Last Updated: 21 dec 2011
Journal: DCDS-B
Volume: 17
Number: 2
Pages: 597--635
Year: 2012
Abstract:
Variational problems for the liquid crystal energy of mappings from three-dimensional domains into the real projective plane are studied. More generally, we study the dipole problem, the relaxed energy, and density properties concerning the conformal $p$-energy of mappings from $n$-dimensional domains that are constrained to take values into the $p$-dimensional real projective space, for any positive integer $p$. Furthermore, a notion of optimally connecting measure for the singular set of such class of maps is given.
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