Dihedral-family conjecture for non-axisymmetric critical points of the Onsager potential

Consider the Onsager potential with interaction parameter μ>0\mu>0. For a positive integer nn, let D2nhD^{2n\mathrm{h}} denote the relevant horizontal dihedral symmetry group, and call a critical point non-axisymmetric when it lacks axial symmetry. Dihedral-family conjecture. There exists a non-axisymmetric critical point with D2nhD^{2n\mathrm{h}} symmetry for some μ>0\mu>0. Numerical computations exhibit several non-axisymmetric states with discrete symmetries, while the asserted existence for the stated dihedral family is not proved in the supplied material.

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Jianyuan Yin, Lei Zhang and Pingwen Zhang, “Solution landscape of the Onsager model identifies non-axisymmetric critical points”, arXiv:2104.09766 (2021).

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