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Inserted: 25 sep 2019
Last Updated: 15 oct 2020

Journal: Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Conference on Geometry, Integrability and Quantization
Volume: 21
Pages: 170-180
Year: 2020

Abstract:

In this paper we review some recent results concerning the variational deduction of a Canham-Helfrich model for biomembranes obtained starting from a mesoscopic model which implements the amphiphilic behavior of the lipid molecules and the head-tail connection. The 2-dimensional analysis is complete while in the 3-dimensional case we have partial results and open problems.

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