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Abstract
Planar films of cholesteric liquid crystals exhibit several types of instabilities in electric fields. A periodic equilibrium structure can appear when the field is parallel to the helix axis. Conditions for the occurrence of the modulated phase have been derived by an analytical theory, which describes long wavelength distortions in the vicinity of Lifshitz points.