Constrained metric variations and emergent equilibrium surfaces

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2013.04.031zbMATH Open1296.53017arXiv1211.7154OpenAlexW2013114109MaRDI QIDQ401644FDOQ401644

Jemal Guven, Pablo Vázquez-Montejo

Publication date: 27 August 2014

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Any surface is completely characterized by a metric and a symmetric tensor satisfying the Gauss-Codazzi-Mainardi equations (GCM), which identifies the latter as its curvature. We demonstrate that physical questions relating to a surface described by any Hamiltonian involving only surface degrees of freedom can be phrased completely in terms of these tensors without explicit reference to the ambient space: the surface is an emergent entity. Lagrange multipliers are introduced to impose GCM as constraints on these variables and equations describing stationary surface states derived. The behavior of these multipliers is explored for minimal surfaces, showing how their singularities correlate with surface instabilities.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.7154

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zbMATH Keywords

Lagrange multipliersminimal surfacesHamiltonianGauss-Codazzi-Mainardi equationssurface instabilities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Hamilton's equations (70H05)

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