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20162026
most citedExistence and Regularity of Spheres Minimising the Canham-Helfrich Energy

22 citations · 63 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

math.DG2026

Delaunay surfaces with free boundary on the unit -sphere

Eric Lang, Christian Scharrer

We characterize all symmetric, embedded surfaces of revolution with constant mean curvature that meet the unit sphere orthogonally. It is well known that there exists a unique free…

math.AP2026

Existence and convergence of the area-constrained elastic flow

Florian Hauser, Christian Scharrer, Alexander West

We study the evolution of plane closed curves with fixed area moving by the negative -gradient of their elastic energy. For smooth initial data, we establish local and global…

math.DG2026

Bubble classification of immersions at the boundary of the moduli space with Willmore energy

Christian Scharrer, Manuel Schlierf, Alexander West

We study the asymptotic bubbling behavior of sequences of weak genus- immersions with diverging conformal classes and limiting Willmore energy of . After applying suitable M…

math.DG2025

Energy quantization for constrained Willmore surfaces

Christian Scharrer, Alexander West

We establish an energy quantization for constrained Willmore surfaces, where the constraints are given by area, volume, and total mean curvature, assuming that the underlying confo…

math.AP2024

Gradient flow dynamics for cell membranes in the Canham-Helfrich model

Fabian Rupp, Christian Scharrer, Manuel Schlierf

The energetically most efficient way how a deformed red blood cell regains equilibrium is mathematically described by the gradient flow of the Canham-Helfrich functional, including…

math.DG2024★ 1 cited

Global regularity of integral 2-varifolds with square integrable mean curvature

Fabian Rupp, Christian Scharrer

We provide sharp sufficient criteria for an integral -varifold to be induced by a -conformal immersion of a smooth surface. Our approach is based on a fine analysis of…

math.DG2024

On the minimization of the Willmore energy under a constraint on total mean curvature and area

Christian Scharrer, Alexander West

Motivated by a model for lipid bilayer cell membranes, we study the minimization of the Willmore functional in the class of oriented closed surfaces with prescribed total mean curv…

math.DG2023

Properties of surfaces with spontaneous curvature

Christian Scharrer

A model describing cell membranes as optimal shapes with regard to the -deficit of their mean curvature to a given constant called spontaneous curvature is considered. It is s…

math.DG2023

Short closed geodesics and the Willmore energy

Marius Müller, Fabian Rupp, Christian Scharrer

We prove a lower bound on the length of closed geodesics for spheres with Willmore energy below . The energy threshold is optimal and the inequality cannot be extended to surfa…

math.DG2023

Diameter estimates for surfaces in conformally flat spaces

Marco Flaim, Christian Scharrer

The aim of this paper is to give an upper bound for the intrinsic diameter of a surface with boundary immersed in a conformally flat three dimensional Riemannian manifold in terms…

math.DG2022

A priori bounds for geodesic diameter. Part II. Fine connectedness properties of varifolds

Ulrich Menne, Christian Scharrer

For varifolds whose first variation is representable by integration, we introduce the notion of indecomposability with respect to locally Lipschitzian real valued functions. Unlike…

math.DG2022★ 2 cited

A priori bounds for geodesic diameter. Part I. Integral chains with coefficients in a complete normed commutative group

Ulrich Menne, Christian Scharrer

As service to the community, we provide - for Euclidean space - a basic treatment of locally rectifiable chains and of the complex of locally integral chains. In this setting, we m…

math.DG2022★ 11 cited

Li-Yau inequalities for the Helfrich functional and applications

Fabian Rupp, Christian Scharrer

We prove a general Li-Yau inequality for the Helfrich functional where the spontaneous curvature enters with a singular volume type integral. In the physically relevant cases, this…

math.DG2021★ 6 cited

Some geometric inequalities for varifolds on Riemannian manifolds based on monotonicity identities

Christian Scharrer

Using Rauch's comparison theorem, we prove several monotonicity inequalities for Riemannian submanifolds. Our main result is a general Li-Yau inequality which is applicable in any…

math.DG2021★ 8 cited

Embedded Delaunay tori and their Willmore energy

Christian Scharrer

A family of embedded rotationally symmetric tori in the Euclidean 3-space consisting of two opposite signed constant mean curvature surfaces that converge as varifolds to a double…

math.DG2020★ 8 cited

A strict inequality for the minimisation of the Willmore functional under isoperimetric constraint

Andrea Mondino, Christian Scharrer

Inspired by previous work of Kusner and Bauer-Kuwert, we prove a strict inequality between the Willmore energies of two surfaces and their connected sum in the context of isoperime…

math.DG2019★ 22 cited

Existence and Regularity of Spheres Minimising the Canham-Helfrich Energy

Andrea Mondino, Christian Scharrer

We prove existence and regularity of minimisers for the Canham-Helfrich energy in the class of weak (possibly branched and bubbled) immersions of the -sphere. This solves (the s…

math.DG2017★ 2 cited

A priori bounds for geodesic diameter. Part III. A Sobolev-Poincaré inequality and applications to a variety of geometric variational problems

Ulrich Menne, Christian Scharrer

Based on a novel type of Sobolev-Poincaré inequality (for generalised weakly differentiable functions on varifolds), we establish a finite upper bound of the geodesic diameter of g…

math.DG2016★ 3 cited

An isoperimetric inequality for diffused surfaces

Ulrich Menne, Christian Scharrer

For general varifolds in Euclidean space, we prove an isoperimetric inequality, adapt the basic theory of generalised weakly differentiable functions, and obtain several Sobolev ty…