Isoperimetric conjugate points with application to the stability of DNA minicircles

DOI10.1098/rspa.1998.0291zbMath1002.92507OpenAlexW1984307644MaRDI QIDQ4259291

Kathleen A. Rogers, Robert S. Manning, John H. Maddocks

Publication date: 15 January 2003

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1998.0291

zbMATH Keywords

elastic rodsindexbifurcation diagramstwo-point boundary value problemsconstrained second variation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of optimal control and differential games (49N90) Biophysics (92C05) Optimality conditions for free problems in two or more independent variables (49K10)

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Uses Software

• Maple

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