{"paper":{"title":"Fluctuations and symmetries in two-dimensional active gels","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"cond-mat.stat-mech","authors_text":"Abhik Basu, Niladri Sarkar","submitted_at":"2011-03-11T11:44:17Z","abstract_excerpt":"Motivated by the unique physical properties of {\\em biological active matter}, e.g., cytoskeletal dynamics in eukaryotic cells, we set up {\\em effective} two-dimensional (2d) coarse-grained hydrodynamic equations for the dynamics of thin {\\em active gels} with polar or nematic symmetries. We use the well-known three-dimensional (3d) descriptions [K. Kruse {\\em et al}, {\\em Eur. Phys. J E}, {\\bf 16}, 5 (2005); A. Basu {\\em et al}, {\\em Eur. Phys. J E}, {\\bf 27}, 149 (2008)] for thin active gel samples confined between parallel plates with appropriate boundary conditions to derive the effective "},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1103.2250","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}