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VOL. 10 | 2009 Extremals of the Generalized Euler-Bernoulli Energy and Applications
Chapter Author(s) Óscar J. Garay
Editor(s) Ivaïlo M. Mladenov, Gaetano Vilasi, Akira Yoshioka
Geom. Integrability & Quantization, 2009: 56-87 (2009) DOI: 10.7546/giq-10-2009-56-87

Abstract

In this survey we describe a general method to deal with the variational problem associated to the generalized elastic curves, paying special attention to closed critical curves in real space forms due to its special geometric significance. We illustrate the method by studying particular choices of this energy in some more detail. Finally, we will review also some interesting applications of generalized elasticae to other higher dimensional variational problems in Physics, Biophysics and the Theory of Submanifolds.

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Published: 1 January 2009
First available in Project Euclid: 13 July 2015

zbMATH: 1261.58008
MathSciNet: MR2757826

Digital Object Identifier: 10.7546/giq-10-2009-56-87

Rights: Copyright © 2009 Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

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