AXIAL SYMMETRY AND CLASSIFICATION OF STATIONARY SOLUTIONS OF DOI-ONSAGER EQUATION ON THE SPHERE WITH MAIER-SAUPE POTENTIAL*

Communications in Mathematical Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 201-218

  Liu, Hailiang ^a   Zhang, Hui ^b   Zhang, Pingwen ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Axial symmetry; Doi onsager model; Stationary solutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 26944448390     PISSN: 15396746     EISSN: 19450796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/CMS.2005.v3.n2.a7     Document Type: Article

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