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Concentration-cancellation in the Ericksen-Leslie model

Analysis of PDEs 2019-12-24 v1

Abstract

We establish the subconvergence of weak solutions to the Ginzburg-Landau approximation to global-in-time weak solutions of the Ericksen-Leslie model for nematic liquid crystals on the torus T2\mathbb{T}^2. The key argument is a variation of concentration-cancellation methods originally introduced by DiPerna and Majda to investigate the weak stability of solutions to the (steady-state) Euler equations.

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@article{arxiv.1912.10429,
  title  = {Concentration-cancellation in the Ericksen-Leslie model},
  author = {Joshua Kortum},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.10429},
  year   = {2019}
}
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