Defects of liquid crystals with variable degree of orientation

Abstract

We prove that the zero set of a minimizer of the modified Ericksen energy for nematic liquid crystals with variable degree of orientation consists locally of isolated points and a finite union of H\"older continuous curves with only finitely many crossings.

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