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Project B3 of SFB/Transregio 71: Minimizers of the Willmore Functional with Prescribed Area and Enclosed Volume.

Description of the project:
Motivated by a simple model for elastic cell membranes, we want to minimize the Willmore functional among two-dimensional spheres with fixed surface area and fixed enclosed volume. By scale invariance the constraints reduce to effective parameter, which can be taken as the isoperimetric ratio.

Additional information: http://sfbtr71.de/
contact person: Prof. Dr. Ernst Kuwert
Phone: ++49 (0) 761 203-5585
Email: ernst.kuwert@math.uni-freiburg.de
Runtime:
Start of project: 2009
End of project: 2013
Project Management:
Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
Prof. Dr. Ernst Kuwert
Abteilung für Reine Mathematik
Prof. Dr. Ernst Kuwert
Ernst-Zermelo-Straße 1
79104 Freiburg
Germany

Phone: +49 (0) 761 203-5585
Fax: +49 (0) 761 203-5541
Email: ernst.kuwert@math.uni-freiburg.de
http://home.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de/kuwert/
Actual Research Report
Financing:
  • DFG