Questions on Liquid crystals
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Date and time:听
Friday, February 15, 2013 - 1:00pm
Abstract:听
As Leslie points out in his 1968 paper : 鈥渓iquid crystals are states of matter which are capable of flow, and in which the molecular arrangements give rise to a preferred direction鈥�. In this lecture I will discuss regularity and uniqueness results for solutions of systems of nematic liquid crystals (LCD) with non constant density. I will also discuss the asymptotic behavior of solutions with constant density, showing that the solutions decay at an algebraic rate.