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Boundary regularity for Oseen-Frank minimizers with arbitrary positive splay, twist, and bend constants

Aug 2026 · 0 citations · 13 references
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Abstract

Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^3$ be a smooth bounded domain and let $g:\partial\Omega\to\mathbb S^2$ be smooth. We prove that any global minimizer of the Oseen--Frank energy subject to the strong anchoring condition $n=g$ is smooth in a full neighborhood of $\partial\Omega$. The result holds for arbitrary positive splay, twist, and bend constants, without any small-anisotropy assumption. It resolves the boundary-regularity part of Lin and Liu's Problem~(c) for the pure Oseen--Frank problem and for its prescribed smooth magnetic-field perturbation.

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