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Main Authors: Lin, Fanghua, Sire, Yannick, Wu, Yantao, Zhou, Yifu
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18726
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author Lin, Fanghua
Sire, Yannick
Wu, Yantao
Zhou, Yifu
author_facet Lin, Fanghua
Sire, Yannick
Wu, Yantao
Zhou, Yifu
contents We introduce several new models whose common feature is to take into account effects from topological vorticity. The macroscopic unknown is driven by a dissipative anomalous diffusion (of SQG-type) and is coupled with the orientation of the crystal, moving by the gradient flow of the energy of maps. The main idea of such models is to have a better insight on the vorticity formulation of the Liquid Crystal Flow and to tackle some regularity issues in the associated conserved geometric motions. One of the advantage of the present PDEs is to capture features of the Navier-Stokes equations (or Euler) through a {\sl scalar} unknown, keeping the advection-diffusion structure of the orientation field. We obtain regularity for mild solutions under natural assumptions for the initial data, which are actually near-optimal. Along the way, we also draw some links with natural models of (anti-)ferromagnets previously investigated.
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spellingShingle Liquid crystals and topological vorticity: smoothness of mild solutions
Lin, Fanghua
Sire, Yannick
Wu, Yantao
Zhou, Yifu
Analysis of PDEs
We introduce several new models whose common feature is to take into account effects from topological vorticity. The macroscopic unknown is driven by a dissipative anomalous diffusion (of SQG-type) and is coupled with the orientation of the crystal, moving by the gradient flow of the energy of maps. The main idea of such models is to have a better insight on the vorticity formulation of the Liquid Crystal Flow and to tackle some regularity issues in the associated conserved geometric motions. One of the advantage of the present PDEs is to capture features of the Navier-Stokes equations (or Euler) through a {\sl scalar} unknown, keeping the advection-diffusion structure of the orientation field. We obtain regularity for mild solutions under natural assumptions for the initial data, which are actually near-optimal. Along the way, we also draw some links with natural models of (anti-)ferromagnets previously investigated.
title Liquid crystals and topological vorticity: smoothness of mild solutions
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18726