Zhewen Feng, Min-Chun Hong
Published 2021-12-07, updated 2022-09-28Version 2
The Landau-de Gennes energy in nematic liquid crystals depends on four elastic constants $L_1$, $L_2$, $L_3$, $L_4$. In the case of $L_4\neq 0$, Ball and Majumdar (Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 2010) found an example that the original Landau-de Gennes energy functional in physics does not satisfy a coercivity condition, which causes a problem in mathematics to establish existence of energy minimizers. At first, we introduce a new Landau-de Gennes energy density with $L_4\neq 0$, which is equivalent to the original Landau-de Gennes density for uniaxial tensors and satisfies the coercivity condition for all $Q$-tensors. Secondly, we prove that solutions of the Landau-de Gennes system can approach a solution of the $Q$-tensor Oseen-Frank system without using energy minimizers. Thirdly, we develop a new approach to generalize the Nguyen and Zarnescu (Calc. Var. PDEs, 2013) convergence result to the case of non-zero elastic constants $L_2$, $L_3$, $L_4$.
Comments: Revised vision. To appear in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2007.11144
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