Isoperimetric conjugate points with application to the stability of DNA minicircles

DOI10.1098/RSPA.1998.0291MaRDI QIDQ4259291zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert Manning, Kathleen A. Rogers, J. H. Maddocks

Publication date 15 January 2003

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1998.0291

zbMATH Keywords

bifurcation diagramsconstrained second variationelastic rodsindextwo-point boundary value problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimality conditions for free problems in two or more independent variables (49K10) Applications of optimal control and differential games (49N90) Biophysics (92C05)

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