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Global defect topology in nematic liquid crystals

We give the global homotopy classification of nematic textures for a general domain with weak anchoring boundary conditions and arbitrary defect set in terms of twisted cohomology, and give an explicit computation for the case of knotted and linked defects in [Formula: see text] , showing that the d...

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Autores principales: Machon, Thomas, Alexander, Gareth P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4971252/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27493576
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2016.0265