Geometry, analysis, and morphogenesis: Problems and prospects

DOI10.1090/BULL/1765MaRDI QIDQ5081546zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Marta Lewicka, L. Mahadevan

Publication date 15 June 2022

Published in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.08988

zbMATH Keywords

elasticitymorphogenesisthin elastic films

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Pattern formations in context of PDEs (35B36) Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Monge-Ampère equations (35J96) PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92) Elastic materials (74B99) Plates (74K20) Thin films (74K35) Computational methods for problems pertaining to biology (92-08) Developmental biology, pattern formation (92C15)

Abstract: The remarkable range of biological forms in and around us, such as the undulating shape of a leaf or flower in the garden, the coils in our gut, or the folds in our brain, raise a number of questions at the interface of biology, physics and mathematics. How might these shapes be predicted, and how can they eventually be designed? We review our current understanding of this problem, that brings together analysis, geometry and mechanics in the description of the morphogenesis of low-dimensional objects. Starting from the view that shape is the consequence of metric frustration in an ambient space, we examine the links between the classical Nash embedding problem and biological morphogenesis. Then, motivated by a range of experimental observations and numerical computations, we revisit known rigorous results on curvature-driven patterning of thin elastic films, especially the asymptotic behaviors of the solutions as the (scaled) thickness becomes vanishingly small and the local curvature can become large. Along the way, we discus open problems that include those in mathematical modeling and analysis along with questions driven by the allure of being able to tame soft surfaces for applications in science and engineering.

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