Self-Dual Bending Theory for Vesicles
Soft Condensed Matter
2007-05-23 v3 Pattern Formation and Solitons
Quantitative Methods
Abstract
We present a self-dual bending theory that may enable a better understanding of highly nonlinear global behavior observed in biological vesicles. Adopting this topological approach for spherical vesicles of revolution allows us to describe them as frustrated sine-Gordon kinks. Finally, to illustrate an application of our results, we consider a spherical vesicle globally distorted by two polar latex beads.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0210441,
title = {Self-Dual Bending Theory for Vesicles},
author = {Jerome Benoit and Elizabeth von Hauff and Avadh Saxena},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0210441},
year = {2007}
}
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10 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX2e+IOPart