Energy Conservative Solutions to a One‐Dimensional Full Variational Wave System |
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| Authors: | Ping Zhang Yuxi Zheng |
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| Institution: | 1. Academy of Mathematics, and Systems Science, and Hua Loo‐Keng Key Laboratory of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190 BEIJING, P.R. CHINA;2. Yeshiva University, Department of Mathematical Sciences, 2495 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10033 |
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| Abstract: | We establish the existence of a conservative weak solution to the initial value problem for a complete system of variational wave equations modeling liquid crystals in one space dimension, in which the director has two degrees of freedom. The solutions exist globally in time and singularities may develop in finite time, but the energy of the solutions is conserved across singular times. The method for existence also yields continuous dependence of solutions on the initial data. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. |
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