Fragmentation and monomer lengthening of rod-like polymers, a relevant model for prion proliferation

DOI10.3934/dcdsb.2012.17.775zbMath1239.82046arXiv1112.4342OpenAlexW2105893527MaRDI QIDQ414734

Liviu Iulian Palade, Erwan Hingant, Ionel Sorin Ciuperca, Laurent Pujo-Menjouet

Publication date: 11 May 2012

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.4342

zbMATH Keywords

existence of solutionsproteinprion fragmentation-lengthening dynamicsprobability configurational Fokker-Planck-Smoluchowski equationrigid-rod polymer kinetical theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60) PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92) Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01)

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