The Transmission of Symmetry of Liquid Crystals

Abstract

In liquid crystals, the existing experiments and simulations suggest that for various types of molecules: no homogeneous phase is found breaking the molecular symmetry. It has been proved for rod-like molecules. We conjecture that it holds for two types of two-fold symmetries, and prove it for some molecules with these symmetries.

Publication
Xu J., Zhang P. (2017). The Transmission of Symmetry of Liquid Crystals. In Communications in Mathematical Sciences, 15.