Deformations of the geometry of lipid vesicles
Loading...
Date
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Abstract
Description
Consider a closed lipid membrane (vesicle), modeled as a two-dimensional surface, described by a geometrical hamiltonian that depends on its extrinsic curvature. The vanishing of its first variation determines the equilibrium configurations for the system. In this paper, we examine the second variation of the hamiltonian about any given equilibrium, using an explicitly surface covariant geometrical approach. We identify the operator which determines the stability of equilibrium configurations.
15 pages, no figures
15 pages, no figures