Bogomol'nyi decomposition for vesicles of arbitrary genus

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/34/44/306zbMATH Open1022.70015arXivcond-mat/0103004OpenAlexW1993039400MaRDI QIDQ4533581FDOQ4533581

Authors: J. Benoit, A. Saxena, T. Lookman 

Publication date: 11 June 2002

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We apply the Bogomol'nyi technique, which is usually invoked in the study of solitons or models with topological invariants, to the case of elastic energy of vesicles. We show that spontaneous bending contribution caused by any deformation from metastable bending shapes falls in two distinct topological sets: shapes of spherical topology and shapes of non-spherical topology experience respectively a deviatoric bending contribution a la Fischer and a mean curvature bending contribution a la Helfrich. In other words, topology may be considered to describe bending phenomena. Besides, we calculate the bending energy per genus and the bending closure energy regardless of the shape of the vesicle. As an illustration we briefly consider geometrical frustration phenomena experienced by magnetically coated vesicles.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0103004

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zbMATH Keywords

conservation lawstopological invariantsBogomol'nyi decompositionbending closure energyelastic energy of vesiclesmetastable bendingspontaneous bendings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetries and conservation laws in mechanics of particles and systems (70S10)

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• Curvature and topology in smectic-A liquid crystals
• Importance of topology in materials science
• Topology of cell membranes
• Nonlinear approximation of 3D smectic liquid crystals: sharp lower bound and compactness

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