Elastic bilayer membranes under confinement -- Existence, regularity, and rigidity
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| author | Röger, Matthias Rupp, Fabian |
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| contents | Motivated by applications to cell biology, we study the constrained minimization of the Helfrich energy among closed surfaces confined to a container. We show existence of minimizers in the class of bubble trees of spherical weak branched immersions and derive the Euler--Lagrange equations which involve a measure-valued Lagrange multiplier that is concentrated on the coincidence set with the container boundary. We provide a careful analysis of this elliptic system and prove optimal regularity for solutions throughout the branch points. For surfaces confined in the unit ball we show that the minimization problem behaves rather rigid and identify a parameter range for which minimizers are always round spheres. |
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| spellingShingle | Elastic bilayer membranes under confinement -- Existence, regularity, and rigidity Röger, Matthias Rupp, Fabian Analysis of PDEs Differential Geometry 49Q10 (primary), 35B65, 35R35 (secondary) Motivated by applications to cell biology, we study the constrained minimization of the Helfrich energy among closed surfaces confined to a container. We show existence of minimizers in the class of bubble trees of spherical weak branched immersions and derive the Euler--Lagrange equations which involve a measure-valued Lagrange multiplier that is concentrated on the coincidence set with the container boundary. We provide a careful analysis of this elliptic system and prove optimal regularity for solutions throughout the branch points. For surfaces confined in the unit ball we show that the minimization problem behaves rather rigid and identify a parameter range for which minimizers are always round spheres. |
| title | Elastic bilayer membranes under confinement -- Existence, regularity, and rigidity |
| topic | Analysis of PDEs Differential Geometry 49Q10 (primary), 35B65, 35R35 (secondary) |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14520 |