The Helfrich boundary value problem (Q1755650)

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      The Helfrich boundary value problem (English)
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      10 January 2019
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      This paper deals with branched Helfrich immersions that satisfy Dirichlet boundary conditions and with a finite number of branch points. The main contribution of this paper is a lower semicontinuity result with respect to oriented varifold convergence for the Helfrich energy and a minimising sequence. The basic idea is to analyze the Helfrich energy for oriented varifolds. This is essentially done by using variational arguments.
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      Dirichlet boundary problem
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      Canham-Helfrich energy
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