In this survey article,we present two applications of surface curvatures in theoretical *** first application arises from biophysics in the study of the shape of cell vesicles involving the minimization of a mean curv...
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In this survey article,we present two applications of surface curvatures in theoretical *** first application arises from biophysics in the study of the shape of cell vesicles involving the minimization of a mean curvature type energy called the Helfrich bending *** this formalism,the equilibrium shape of a cell vesicle may present itself in a rich variety of geometric and topological *** first show that there is an obstruction,arising from the spontaneous curvature,to the existence of a minimizer of the Helfrich energy over the set of embedded ring *** then propose a scale-invariant anisotropic bending energy,which extends the Canham energy,and show that it possesses a unique toroidal energy minimizer,up to rescaling,in all parameter ***,we establish some genus-dependent topological lower and upper bounds,which are known to be lacking with the Helfrich energy,for the proposed *** also present the shape equation in our context,which extends the Helfrich shape *** second application arises from astrophysics in the search for a mechanism for matter accretion in the early universe in the context of cosmic *** this formalism,gravitation may simply be stored over a two-surface so that the Einstein tensor is given in terms of the Gauss curvature of the surface which relates itself directly to the Hamiltonian energy density of the matter *** setting provides a lucid exhibition of the interplay of the underlying geometry,matter energy,and topological characterization of the *** both areas of applications,we encounter highly challenging nonlinear partial differential equation *** demonstrate that studies on these equations help us to gain understanding of the theoretical physics problems considered.
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