Some open questions concerning biological growth
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Morphogenesis, Probability Theory, Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics, Stochastic Partial Differential EquationsAbstract
We briefly review the properties of radially growing interfaces and their connection to biological growth. We focus on simplified models which result from the abstraction of only considering domain growth and not the interface curvature. Linear equations can be exactly solved and the phenomenology of growth can be inferred from the explicit solutions. Nonlinear equations pose interesting open questions that are summarized herein.
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