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Topological Defects in Gravitational Lensing Shear Fields
Vincenzo Vitelli, Bhuvnesh Jain, Randall D. Kamien
Shear fields due to weak gravitational lensing have characteristic coherent patterns. We describe the topological defects in shear fields in terms of the curvature of the surface d…
Smectics: Symmetry Breaking, Singularities, and Surfaces
Bryan Gin-ge Chen, Gareth P. Alexander, Randall D. Kamien
The homotopy theory of topological defects in ordered media fails to completely characterize systems with broken translational symmetry. We argue that the problem can be understood…
Elastic Instability Triggered Pattern Formation
Elisabetta A. Matsumoto, Randall D. Kamien
Recent experiments have exploited elastic instabilities in membranes to create complex patterns. However, the rational design of such structures poses many challenges, as they are…