Symmetry of Uniaxial Global Landau-de Gennes Minimizers in the Theory of Nematic Liquid Crystals

We extend the recent radial symmetry results by Pisante [J. Funct. Anal., 260 (2011), pp. 892--905] and Millot and Pisante [J. Eur. Math. Soc. $($JEMS$)$, 12 (2010), pp. 1069--1096] (who show that ...

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