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Stability under periodic compression strain is studied for the system of linear domains formed in the planar layer of a nematic liquid crystal due to periodic shear deformation. The critical amplitude of this oscillatory compression is found, at which this system becomes unstable and undergoes a transformation that is manifested in the formation of spatially modulated structures with various conformations.
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Original Russian Text © O.A. Kapustina, 2006, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Éksperimental’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, 2006, Vol. 83, No. 1, pp. 12–15.
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Kapustina, O.A. On the stability of the system of linear domains in planar nematics under oscillatory compression. Jetp Lett. 83, 10–13 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364006010036
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364006010036