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Equivalent smectic C liquid crystal energies

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This article describes the relationships between the alternative formulations of the bulk non-chiral smectic C liquid crystal energies currently available in the literature; the relative equivalence of these energies is discussed and demonstrated.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Strathclyde, Livingstone Tower 26 Richmond Street, G1 1XH, Glasgow, Scotland

    F. M. Leslie

  2. Department of Theoretical Mechanics, University of Nottingham, University Park, NG7 2RD, Nottingham, England

    I. W. Stewart

  3. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, S-412 96, Göteborg, Sweden

    T. Carlsson

  4. Department of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Kamitomioka 1603-1, 940-21, Nagaoka Niigata, Japan

    M. Nakagawa

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Leslie, F.M., Stewart, I.W., Carlsson, T. et al. Equivalent smectic C liquid crystal energies. Continuum Mech. Thermodyn 3, 237–250 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01126409

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