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Fluid membranes endowed with tangent-plane order (TPO) such as tilt- andhexatic order afford unique soft matter systems for investigating the interplaybetween elasticity, shape, topology, and thermal fluctuations. Using thespin-connection formulation of membrane energy we obtain equa- tions ofequilibrium together with free boundary conditions for ground states of suchmembranes. We extend the spin-connection formulation to smectic liquid crystalswith TPO and show that for chiral smectics-C* this generalization leads toexperimentally verifiable consequences for dispirations having topologicalindices (helicities) of the same magnitude but opposite signs.

Equilibrium of fluid membranes with tangent-plane order (TPO), elasticity of smectics with TPO, and dispiration asymmetry in smectics-C*