Confining spheres within hyperspheres

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/46/13/135201MaRDI QIDQ4916892zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Pablo Vázquez-Montejo, Jemal Guven, José A. Santiago

Publication date 26 April 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3845

zbMATH Keywords

two-dimensional surfacequadrupoleharmonic deformationsbending energy minimizationthree-dimensional hypersphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Energy minimization in equilibrium problems in solid mechanics (74G65)

Abstract: The bending energy of any freely deformable closed surface is quadratic in its curvature. In the absence of constraints, it will be minimized when the surface adopts the form of a round sphere. If the surface is confined within a hypersurface of smaller size, however, this spherical state becomes inaccessible. A framework is introduced to describe the equilibrium states of the confined surface. It is applied to a two-dimensional surface confined within a three-dimensional hypersphere of smaller radius. If the excess surface area is small, the equilibrium states are represented by harmonic deformations of a two-sphere: the ground state is described by a quadrupole; all higher multipoles are shown to be unstable.

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