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Conservative Solutions to a System of Variational Wave Equations of Nematic Liquid Crystals

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In this paper, we solve a system of hyperbolic equations by modelling nematic liquid crystals.

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  1. Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080, Beijing, China

    Ping Zhang

  2. Department of Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA

    Yuxi Zheng

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Zhang, P., Zheng, Y. Conservative Solutions to a System of Variational Wave Equations of Nematic Liquid Crystals. Arch Rational Mech Anal 195, 701–727 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00205-009-0222-0

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