Dynamics of embedded curves by doubly-nonlocal reaction-diffusion systems

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA9109zbMATH Open1377.35161arXiv1711.08104OpenAlexW2763341941MaRDI QIDQ4599348FDOQ4599348

Ryan Blair, James H. von Brecht

Publication date: 29 December 2017

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

Abstract: We study a class of nonlocal, energy-driven dynamical models that govern the motion of closed, embedded curves from both an energetic and dynamical perspective. Our energetic results provide a variety of ways to understand physically motivated energetic models in terms of more classical, combinatorial measures of complexity for embedded curves. This line of investigation culminates in a family of complexity bounds that relate a rather broad class of models to a generalized, or weighted, variant of the crossing number. Our dynamic results include global well-posedness of the associated partial differential equations, regularity of equilibria for these flows as well as a more detailed investigation of dynamics near such equilibria. Finally, we explore a few global dynamical properties of these models numerically.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.08104

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zbMATH Keywords

reaction-diffusion systemsdistortioncrossing numberknot energybending energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Protein sequences, DNA sequences (92D20) Dynamical systems in biology (37N25) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92)

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