Global minimizers for the doubly-constrained Helfrich energy: the axisymmetric case

DOI10.1007/s00526-012-0553-9zbMath1278.49049arXiv1202.1979MaRDI QIDQ376611

Rustum Choksi, Marco Veneroni

Publication date: 5 November 2013

Published in: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.1979

zbMATH Keywords

global minimizers; shape analysis; biomembranes; Canham-Helfrich functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

49J45: Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation

53C80: Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences

49Q10: Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces

58E99: Variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces

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