Dedicando speciale attenzione all’esempio significativo dei cristalli liquidi di Ericksen [6], viene presentato un apparato assiomatico che consente di dedurre rappresentazioni coerenti delle interazioni d’inerzia e dell’energia cinetica per continui con microstruttura.
We consider a class of two-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau problems which are characterized by energy density concentrations on a one-dimensional set. In this paper, we investigate the states of vanishing energy. We classify these zero-energy states in the whole space: They are either constant or a vortex. A bounded domain can sustain a zero-energy state only if the domain is a disk and the state a vortex. Our proof is based on specific entropies which lead to a kinetic formulation, and on a careful...
For a finite dimensional spin-glass model we prove low temperature local order i.e. the property of concentration of the overlap distribution close to the value 1. The theorem hold for both local observables and for products of observables at arbitrary mutual distance: when the Hamiltonian includes the Edwards-Anderson interaction we prove bond local order, when it includes the random-field interaction we prove site local order.